Too-close exoplanet triggers flares from host star
Physics World
AUGUST 1, 2025
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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