Scientists Have Studied the Sounds of ‘Starquakes’ to Find Out How Stars Form

Researchers have investigated the internal soundwaves created by starquakes – oscillations and flashes of energy created by stars – to determine the orientation on which they spin.

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Using NASA’s Kepler space observatory, the team investigated four years of the starquakes and oscillations, and determined that the orientation of their spinning angle was strongly aligned in 70 percent of the stars.

“The results were unexpected – we found that the spins of most of the stars were aligned with each other,” says Stello.

Tau.Neutrino said:

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Using NASA’s Kepler space observatory, the team investigated four years of the starquakes and oscillations, and determined that the orientation of their spinning angle was strongly aligned in 70 percent of the stars.

“The results were unexpected – we found that the spins of most of the stars were aligned with each other,” says Stello.

There is an explanation. Kepler is a leaky instrument, in many cases it picks up several unrelated stars when it is trying to view one. For instance I found one brown dwarf that showed up in the Kepler images of five different stars. Quite probably, what is being seen here is light leakage from one Kepler image to another.