US EditionFor First Time, Astronomers Record A Coronal Mass Ejection From A Star That's Not Our Sun
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For years, astronomers have watched the stars wondering if anywhere in the universe storms would erupt as violent as those shaking the Sun. The king star often throws gigantic plasma clouds into space — known as coronal mass ejections — capable of altering the space climate, generating dazzling boreal auroras, or shaking satellites spinning over the Earth. But beyond it, no one had seen another celestial body do the same... until now.
A research team has detected a coronal mass ejection, a common phenomenon in the Sun, but on a different star. It is the first time it is recorded. And as highlighted in Sinc, this explosion can destroy the atmosphere of nearby planets, so it serves as a guide in the search for life in
First Clear Evidence of a Massive Stellar Storm on a Nearby Star
An international team led by ASTRON and the Observatoire de Paris-PSL has observed the first definitive radio signal of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from a star beyond our Solar System. The eruption was detected from a nearby red dwarf star just 130 light-years away using the LOFAR radio telescope. Such stellar storms, similar to CMEs on the Sun, could have devastating effects on any orbiting planets, stripping away atmospheric protection and a…
An international team of astronomers has confirmed for the first time the existence of a giant explosion in a star other than the Sun. It is a coronal mass ejection — an immense eruption of plasma and magnetic field — observed with the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton space telescope and the LOFAR radio telescope in the Netherlands. This phenomenon, common on the Sun, has never been conclusively observed in any other star. "For decades w…
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