First #radio waves seen from an #exoplanet hint at otherworldly #auroras
#Astronomer Yvette Cendes knows what you’re thinking: “When people see ‘radio signal from an exoplanet,’ they think aliens,” she says. But, sorry — it’s not aliens.
Could be first clear evidence of an aurora on a planet outside the solar system. The radio waves also reveal planet’s magnetic field, making this potentially first direct detection of magnetic field of an exoplanet
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/exoplanet-aurora-radio-waves
https://archive.is/9rdTJ
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