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Astronomers find puzzling dwarf star with complex magnetic fields
12-05-2007 · EurekAlert!Typically, little M-dwarf stars -- the most common type of star in the galaxy -- are cold, quiet, and dim. Now a team of astronomers led by Edo Berger, a Carnegie-Princeton postdoctoral fellow, found one M-dwarf that doesn't conform. It has an unusually active and complex magnetic field, stronger than our own Sun's, and a huge hot spot that covers half of its surface.
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