{"id":247301,"date":"2026-11-13T23:15:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/astronomers-trace-mystery-radio-signals-back-to-cosmic-odd-couple-of-white-dwarf-and-sun-like-star"},"modified":"2026-11-13T23:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:15:55","slug":"astronomers-trace-mystery-radio-signals-back-to-cosmic-odd-couple-of-white-dwarf-and-sun-like-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/astronomers-trace-mystery-radio-signals-back-to-cosmic-odd-couple-of-white-dwarf-and-sun-like-star","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers trace mystery radio signals back to cosmic odd couple of white dwarf and sun-like star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAs a bonus, we also saw the white dwarf moving behind a region with a strong magnetic field, most likely a \u2018stellar prominence,\u2019 which is a large loop of plasma erupting from a star\u2019s surface,\u201d team member Natasha Hurley-Walker of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University, Australia, said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing that by using radio wavelengths we can detect the storms on a star over 5,000 light-years away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hurley-Walker and the team at ICRAR have been at the cutting edge of rare star systems like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a bonus, we also saw the white dwarf moving behind a region with a strong magnetic field, most likely a \u2018stellar prominence,\u2019 which is a large loop of plasma erupting from a star\u2019s surface,\u201d team member Natasha Hurley-Walker of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University, Australia, said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}