2023-07-29 19:00:00
Amira Shehata wrote Saturday, July 29, 2023 10:00 PM The Hubble telescope detected an angry star called AU Microscopii affecting one of its own planets and causing the atmosphere to evaporate, the planet AU Microscopii b, regarding 32 light-years from our solar system. According to Space, these findings will reveal which exoplanets are undergoing a form of atmospheric evaporation while also giving us a better understanding of which stars may be causing these atmospheres to be shredded nonstop. Planet AU Mic b is regarding four times the diameter of Earth, and has had the misfortune of being obscured regarding 6 million miles (9.6 million km) from its star, an orb classified as a red dwarf, one of the most extreme stellar objects in the universe. . Research has shown that even the quietest example of a red dwarf star like this one is still wilder than our scorching sun. It’s 23 million years old, said Kelly Rockliffe, lead author of a study on the new Hubble discoveries and an exoplanet researcher at Dartmouth College, and stellar astronomers are excited that the AU Mic is an example of what the tantrum-like youthful years of a red dwarf, the most popular type of star, look like. common in the Milky Way. Also, because Hubble is in Earth orbit, it can determine when a distant planet passes between its stellar host and our own by picking up beams of starlight.
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