In a world-first, scientists also created audio representations of these rippling gas waves, or twinkles.
The new audio representation of star twinkling is a word-first that stemmed from the team's investigation into gas waves emanating from the cores of massive stars.
Stars have a convection zone where gases churn, pushing heat outward toward the star's surface. This convection zone is found at the core of giant stars at least 1.2 times the mass of our sun.
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