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Stars Experience a Midlife Crisis When They Become Inactive, Astronomers Say

Image credit: (NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC) Last year, scientists observed a curious phenomenon around the Sun: the star had become “unusually quiet” in comparison to its galactic siblings. We know stars as old as the Sun become inactive as they age, but it was never fully understood why, and how, this process unfolds. A new study offers a theoretical underpinning to the mystery middle-aged stellar objects (almost 4.6 billion years old) tend to experience a “midlife crisis,” and this happens due to dramatic changes in their activity, linked to changes in the magnetic field and rotation rates. Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters on Wednesday, the theory is among the first to explain the unusual signs of weakened activity astronomers have noted for a while in middle-aged stellar systems. It also forms the foundation to understand how the stars may evolve long term.

Stars like our Sun goes through a midlife crisis: Indian researchers reveal mysterious phase

Stars like our Sun goes through a midlife crisis: Indian researchers reveal mysterious phase Stars like our Sun goes through a midlife crisis: Indian researchers reveal mysterious phase Stars like our Sun experience a midlife crisis with reduced activity and transitioning into an inactive phase. advertisement UPDATED: July 29, 2021 12:07 IST Magnetic fields are produced by a dynamo mechanism inside stars and emerge through the surface to the outer atmosphere, where they generate stellar magnetic storms. (Photo: NASA / GSFC / Solar Dynamics Observatory) A team of astronomers from India and Nepal have detected that stars also go through a midlife crisis, where they experience dramatic breaks in their activity, rotational rates, transitioning into an inactive phase. The study provides a new technique to measure the age of stars past their middle age.

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