Indian astronomers discover eight exotic radio stars hotter than Sun - As MRPs are stars hotter than Sun with unusually strong magnetic fields and much stronger stellar wind they emit bright radio pulses like lighthouse.
Sun is hot, really hot. The surface of the sun is burning at more than 5000 degrees Celsius. At the core, it is even hotter. But group of Indian astronomers have now found stars that are hotter than the Sun.
These stars, eight in all, belong to a rare class called 'MRPs' or Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitters. The Pune-based astronomers have discovered the stars by using Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) located near Pune.
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