095.7332111 segreteria.direzione.oact@inaf.it | inafoacatania@pcert.postecert.it
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RSS
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RSS
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania
  • Home
  • Italiano
  • About us
    • Director
    • Structure Council
    • Personnel
    • Structures
      • “A. Riccò” (Catania)
      • “M. G. Fracastoro” (SLN)
    • Facilities
      • Laboratories
        • COLD
        • LASp
      • serra la nave observing station
      • Catania Solar Observations
      • library
      • Weather
        • Catania
        • Serra La Nave
    • Security
      • Safety at work
      • Covid-19
    • History
      • OACt History
      • List of Directors
      • Historical heritage museum (in progress)
  • Research
    • Research activities
    • Projects
    • Scientific publications
Select Page
Tiniest “starquakes” ever detected

Tiniest “starquakes” ever detected

by Daniela Sicilia | Apr 8, 2024 | Magnetic activity and Asteroseismology, RSN2

At a distance of 11.9 light years, Epsilon Indi (ε Indi) is an orange dwarf star (also known as a K dwarf) with 71% of the Sun’s diameter. An international team1, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA2) reseacher Tiago Campante, studied this star...

Recent Posts

  • Turbulence in the Sun’s corona
  • Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby
  • Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found
  • Tiniest “starquakes” ever detected
  • First ‘glory’ on hellish distant world?

Tags

ALMA Ariel asteroseismology astrophotography auroras CHEOPS corona coronograph dwarf star eclipse Epsilon Indi ESA ESO exoplanet exoplanets front-end GAIA glory Gravity James Webb magnetic activity magnetic field Milky Way open clusters orbital resonance planetary system planet formation Plato radio Sarao satellite Ska-Mid SoHO Solar Orbiter solar wind space weather starquakes stellar oscillations Sun Survey TESS turbulence visible VLT X-shooter

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RSS
INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania - C.F.: 97220210583 - Partita IVA: 06895721006                 Accessibilità