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Astronomers Discover Irregularities in the Core of Red Giants

Red giants are dying stars in the advanced stages of stellar evolution, which have depleted the hydrogen in their cores. In this work, published in Nature Communications, a team of astronomers, mainly from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), have found new evidence that red giant stars experience “glitches” — sharp structural variations — in their ...

Troy Oakes

Artist's impression of waves, with different frequencies travelling in the inner layers of a star.