Astronomers Open 'New Window' on Exoplanets After Landmark First Detection of Magnetospheres

Astronomers Open 'New Window' on Exoplanets After Landmark First Detection of Magnetospheres

For a planet to be habitable, it’s generally considered to need liquid water. To have liquid water, a planet needs an atmosphere. To have an atmosphere, it’s understood a world needs a magnetosphere, and for the first time ever, a team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet of magnetic fields—like Earth and Jupiter, […] The post Astronomers Open ‘New Window’ on Exoplanets After Landmark First Detection of Magnetospheres appeared fir…

Astronomers Find the Strongest Evidence Yet That Alien Planets Have Magnetic Fields

The winds on seven hellish alien worlds are moving in the wrong direction. That strange anomaly just cracked open one of exoplanet science's biggest mysteries.

Astronomers find exoplanets with magnetic fields

WASHINGTON — Based on the behavior of winds on seven large, hot gas exoplanets, astronomers have obtained the strongest evidence to date that planets beyond our solar system possess magnetic fields.

Astronomers find several large exoplanets with magnetic fields

WASHINGTON — Based on the behavior of winds on seven large, hot gas exoplanets, astronomers have obtained the strongest evidence to date that planets beyond our solar system possess magnetic fields.

Exoplanets with magnetic fields discovered

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