NASA’s Kepler Mission Helps Reveal the Inner Secrets of Giant Stars for the First Time (Image credit: Thomas Kallinger, University of British Columbia and University of Vienna; via NASA)
University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of the senior citizens of our galaxy: stars known as Red Giants. Using high precision brightness measurements taken by the Kepler spacecraft, scientists have been able to distinguish profound differences inside the cores of stars that otherwise look the same on the surface.
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