New! �Auroral� Exoplanets May Help Alien Life Searches

Ishikatilak14 Nov, 2021Health

Intense auroral emissions from the universe?s tiniest stars may offer a new technique to search for rocky planets that would otherwise go unnoticed. Bursts of radio waves can be produced as a planet passes through its star?s magnetic field. The event is similar to one that scientists have been studying attentively right here in our solar system: periodic radio emissions caused by Jupiter?s moon Io?s interactions.