Star with different internal driving force than the sun

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 13:51 in Astronomy & Space

A star like the sun has an internal driving in the form of a magnetic field that can be seen on the surface as sunspots. Now astrophysicists have observed a distant star in the constellation Andromeda with a different positioning of sunspots and this indicates a magnetic field that is driven by completely different internal dynamics.

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