Nature Podcast · Springer Nature Limited
Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last
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Astronomers finally found a coronal mass ejection from a distant star after searching through 100 years of stellar data.
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Science reporting that makes room for uncertainty without losing the thread.
This Nature Podcast episode follows a faint astronomical clue into a clear account of how scientists build a case. It starts with the 1859 solar storm benchmark, then moves to a distant star whose periodic dimming leads researchers to favor 24 comet-sized bodies over a single…
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A star's light reveals 24 comets, then the genetics of ADHD takes over.
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