Stars like our Sun goes through a midlife crisis: Indian researchers reveal mysterious phase
Stars like our Sun goes through a midlife crisis: Indian researchers reveal mysterious phase
Stars like our Sun experience a midlife crisis with reduced activity and transitioning into an inactive phase.
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UPDATED: July 29, 2021 12:07 IST
Magnetic fields are produced by a dynamo mechanism inside stars and emerge through the surface to the outer atmosphere, where they generate stellar magnetic storms. (Photo: NASA / GSFC / Solar Dynamics Observatory)
A team of astronomers from India and Nepal have detected that stars also go through a midlife crisis, where they experience dramatic breaks in their activity, rotational rates, transitioning into an inactive phase. The study provides a new technique to measure the age of stars past their middle age.
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