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  The Inner Workings of Red Giant Stars Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 15:36 -0500
    Re: The Inner Workings of Red Giant Stars jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-30 21:18 +0000

#529209 — The Inner Workings of Red Giant Stars

The Inner Workings of Red Giant Stars
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/the-inner-workings-of-red-giant-stars-10272015/


> Sunspot, filaments, plages, and flares — visible signs of the Sun’s
> magnetic field riddle its atmosphere. But divining magnetic activity
> inside the Sun is another matter entirely.

> We can’t directly see the magnetic fields within stars, and that
> makes it difficult to connect a star’s visible tortured gas with the
> inner workings of its magnetic field. Everything from predicting the
> strength of the next solar cycle to describing stellar aging hinges
> on better understanding these fields.

> Now, astronomers have found a way to indirectly discern magnetic
> fields, at least within certain types of stars.

> Stars are little more than roiling balls of gas, but as they roil,
> their flickers and pulsations reveal clues to what’s going on inside.
> The study of these brightness changes, a field of astronomy called
> asteroseismology, is akin to using medical ultrasounds to reveal the
> inner workings of the human body.

> - See more at:
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/the-inner-workings-of-red-giant-stars-10272015/


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Inner Workings of Red Giant Stars
>> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/the-inner-workings-of-red-giant-stars-10272015/
> 
> 
>> Sunspot, filaments, plages, and flares ? visible signs of the Sun?s
>> magnetic field riddle its atmosphere. But divining magnetic activity
>> inside the Sun is another matter entirely.
> 
>> We can?t directly see the magnetic fields within stars, and that
>> makes it difficult to connect a star?s visible tortured gas with the
>> inner workings of its magnetic field. Everything from predicting the
>> strength of the next solar cycle to describing stellar aging hinges
>> on better understanding these fields.
> 
>> Now, astronomers have found a way to indirectly discern magnetic
>> fields, at least within certain types of stars.
> 
>> Stars are little more than roiling balls of gas, but as they roil,
>> their flickers and pulsations reveal clues to what?s going on inside.
>> The study of these brightness changes, a field of astronomy called
>> asteroseismology, is akin to using medical ultrasounds to reveal the
>> inner workings of the human body.
> 
>> - See more at:
>> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/the-inner-workings-of-red-giant-stars-10272015/

Yet more astronomy cut and paste to a physics group but not to an astronomy
group, spamming shit head.

This is likely the only discussion you will get on your latest worthles
cut and paste, spamming shit head.
 
 

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Jim Pennino

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