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More stars than ever before have been observed ejecting huge bursts of electrically charged particles into space. Learning more about the behaviour will be important for understanding whether planets orbiting the stars are potentially habitable or not.
Stars like our sun are known to produce coronal mass ejections, huge eruptions of electrically charged particles from the outer atmosphere caused by instabilities in the star’s magnetic field. They are often associated with solar flares, flashes of light resulting from the explosive realignment of twisted magnetic fields.
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While we have been able to observe flares on other sun-like stars with relative ease, coronal mass ejections have been more difficult to spot as they are hidden by the glare of the star. But now Astrid Veronig at the University of Graz in Austria and her colleagues have used a new method to spot 21 such ejections. “This is more detections than have been [found in] al
1 February 2021, 3:40 am EST By Two high school students discovered four new exoplanets using NASA s TESS. ( Screenshot from YouTube/CrashCourse )
Two high school kids have finally applied what they have learned from their astronomy class after stumbling through a sudden discovery of four new exoplanets using NASA s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). The future seems bright for aspiring astronomers in the future.
Two High Schoolers Came Across Space for a New Finding
January is full of astronomical events that have been sighted upon revelation, and yet, two students from highschool made the cut for a new planetary uncovering after seeing never-before-seen exoplanets that are roaming freely in the vast space.