Record-breaking radio waves discovered from ultra-cool star

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Record-Breaking Radio Waves Discovered from Ultra-Cool Star

Penn State University astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emissions from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous record for the lowest stellar temperature at which radio waves were detected.

An artist's impression which shows the relative sizes and colors of the Sun, a red dwarf (M-dwarf), a hotter brown dwarf (L-dwarf), a cool brown dwarf (T-dwarf) similar to J1047+21, and the planet Jupiter. (Credit: NASA/IPAC/R. Hurt (SSC))

Source: Science Daily