An international research team led by the University of Vienna has made a major breakthrough in studying the mass loss rate of stars via stellar winds. This research could assist in the search for life and predict the future evolution of our Solar System.
Infrared image of the shockwave created by the massive giant star Zeta Ophiuchi in an interstellar dust cloud. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team ; C. R. O'Dell, Vanderbilt University
The research was led by Kristina G. Kislyakova, a Senior Scientist with the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna, the deputy head of theAstrospheres are the analogs of our Solar System’s heliosphere, the outermost atmospheric layer of our Sun, composed of hot plasma pushed by solar winds into the interstellar medium . These winds drive many processes that cause planetary atmospheres to be lost to space .
In short, this means that the winds from these stars are much stronger than our Sun’s, which could result from the stronger magnetic activity of these stars. As Kislyakova related in a University of Vienna XMM-Newton X-ray image of the star 70 Ophiuchi and the X-ray emission from the region surrounding the star represented in a spectrum over the energy of the X-ray photons . Credit: C: Kislyakova et al.
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