Wednesday, July 9, 2025

This Planet Makes Its Star Flare and the Planet Suffers Because Of It

This artist's illustration shows the star HIP 67522 and a stellar flare erupting toward the exoplanet HIP 67522 b. Another planet, HIP 67522 c is in the background. Image Credit: Janine Fohlmeister, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

Astronomers have discovered hundreds of exoplanets on extremely short orbits of less than 10 days. Our Solar System has nothing like this, and these planets are so close to their stars that they can disrupt the stars' magnetic fields. Scientists think this can induce stellar flaring, and researchers have detected the first example of exoplanet-induced stellar flaring.



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