Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Astronomers Detect Signature of Magnetic Field on an Exoplanet

Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 28, 2021
An international team of astronomers used data from the Hubble Space Telescope to discover the signature of a magnetic field in a planet outside our solar system. The finding, described in a paper in the journal Nature Astronomy, marks the first time such a feature has been seen on an exoplanet. A magnetic field best explains the observations of an extended region of charged carbon particl

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