Star Bright Stars are a miraculous balance between gravity trying to squeeze it down and the extreme pressure from a star’s white hot core pushing against this force. From this equilibrium, heat and energy churn in a complex balletic dance that make stars twinkle. In a new study out from Nature Astronomy, a team of […]
A team of researchers led by Northwestern University has made groundbreaking discoveries about the innate "twinkle" of stars caused by rippling waves of gas on their surfaces. While stars are known to appear to twinkle due to the bending of starlight as it travels through Earth's atmosphere, this new study focused on the natural "twinkling"…
Scientists measured the innate "twinkling" of three stars as waves of energy traveled from their cores to their surfaces. Then, the team set their findings to a familiar and apt tune.
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