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Too-close exoplanet triggers flares from host star

Physics World

When their twisted magnetic field lines occasionally snap, they release bursts of radiation,” he explains. Our own Sun regularly behaves like this, and we experience its bursts of energy as part of space weather on Earth.” The charged particles that follow such flares, he adds, are responsible for the aurorae at our planet’s poles.

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Astronomers Found the Most Self-Destructive Planet in the Sky

Scientific American

Danielle Futselaar Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation , pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat. “We took all the star-planet systems that we knew of and just went ahead looking for flares—sudden intense bursts of radiation coming from the star’s surface.”

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.3.23

PA Environment Daily

Senators Leading The Way In Holding The Rail Industry Accountable 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- Reuters: Why U.S.

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166 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

[PaEN] -- PennLive: PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill Allowing Large-Scale Energy Projects To Bypass State Agencies -- Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Senate Committee Advances Bill To Allow Utility Companies To Request (..)

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4,258 Stories In 2023 - Environmental & Conservation Leadership, Significant Events In PA

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment [PaEN] -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

How Healthy Soils Grow Better Veggies. Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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In Memoriam: Walt Pomeroy, Environmental, Wildlife & Wilderness Advocate

PA Environment Daily

While attending Albion College in Michigan, he helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970 and appeared on a CBS-TV prime-time special hosted by Walter Cronkite that was called Earth Day: A Question of Survival. Student concern and action did not stop on Earth Day.