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Victoria Corless

Scientists are using stellar 'quakes' to peer inside stars

A red giant star will consume planets close to it, but leave others just right for life. .

Stars don't just shine — they hum with hidden vibrations.

Like earthquakes, ripples of gas on a star's surface — referred to as stellar quakes — offer clues about what lies beneath. And now, scientists have found a new way to probe these tremors in stars' convective envelopes, the turbulent outer layers of a stellar body where hot gas rises, cools and sinks in a churning cycle of energy transfer.

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