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Article: Coronal activity may be 'buried alive' in red giant stars.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- January 27, 2003
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2003 JAN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- When Earth's sun expands into a red giant star in roughly five billion years, long after Earth has become uninhabitable, the hydrogen core will be burned out and the bloated outer shell will be cool and murky.
But according to new research by the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB), such red giants still retain surface magnetic storms and coronas - the very hot and patchy outer atmosphere of the sun and sun-like stars - at temperatures of millions of degrees Fahrenheit that often signal stellar youth.
The red giant coronal regions, however, appear to be submerged in the extended outer shell known as the ...