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UK Plays Leading Role in a Tsunami-Like Starquake Discovery

UK Plays Leading Role in a Tsunami-Like Starquake Discovery

A UK-led team is gathering data that might rewrite textbooks on our understanding of stars. The GAIA observatory took the most detailed survey of the Milky Way yet. Among its discoveries are tsunami-like ‘starquakes’ on many stars.  The space probe’s latest data reveals thousands of tsunami-like starquakes. These movements are like shudderings on the crusts…