Scientists have discovered a very strange phenomenon that stars are exposed to, after they created what was described as a “DNA map” of the universe.
Scientists discovered the phenomenon of “stellar earthquakes”, known as “non-radial oscillations”, by the European Space Agency’s “Gaia” mission, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge.
The unexpected discovery was spotted in the latest observatory data, which scientists describe as a “treasure”, as it includes new and improved details of nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.
And when scientists grouped these stars together, they formed at the end a “DNA map” of the universe, which is a multi-dimensional visual image of asteroids, planets, stars and galaxies, “helping scientists determine the most habitable corners of our galaxy,” according to “Daily Mail.”
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But one of the most surprising discoveries is the one that scientists found within the stellar data of the European Observatory, where it was confirmed that stellar earthquakes were detected, which are small movements on the surface of stars, which changed the shapes of stars, something that the observatory was not originally established for.
It is noteworthy that the “Gaia” observatory had previously discovered radial oscillations that cause stars to periodically enlarge and contract, while maintaining their spherical shape.
But the observatory also detected other exciting oscillations that astronomers describe as “large-scale tsunami waves”, in which these non-radial oscillations change the shape of the star and are thus difficult to detect.