Astronomers track bubbles on a star’s surface in the most detailed video yet
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Astronomers track bubbles on a star’s surface in the most detailed video yet

11 September, 2024

For the first time, astronomers have captured images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star, R Doradus, were obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in July and August 2023. They show giant, hot bubbles of...

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