Ever wondered about the twinkling of stars? 🌟 A cutting-edge model reveals it's not due to convection waves, contradicting popular belief. These findings could reshape our understanding of how stars, galaxies, and even oxygen form! Astrophysics
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsDeep inside stars, fusion reactions combine hydrogen atoms to form helium and release a burst of energy. That energy produces heat, and the heat rises toward the outside of the star, triggering waves along the way that can roll for hundreds of thousands of years.
Scientists have blamed these waves for an odd flickering seen in the light of very massive, very hot stars. They have good reason: By compressing or decompressing plasma on the surface of the star, these convection waves should briefly interfere with how the star appears. But aThe effect is even too minor to detect using currently available telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope.
“It’s an interesting question we’re hoping to get an answer to,” said Matteo Cantiello, a research scientist at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics, in
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