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You Can't Know the True Size of an Exoplanet Without Knowing its Star's Magnetic Field


In 2011, astronomers with the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) consortium detected a gas giant orbiting very close to a Sun-like (G-type) star about 700 light-years away. This planet is known as WASP-39b (aka.

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