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Date: Jun 25, 2007 - 21:15
Stars Have Earth-Like Weather
By Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
posted: 25 June 2007
06:45 am ET
The skies of stars might experience weather like that on planets, researchers now find.
The drifting clouds scientists have seen are wispy, "just like cirrus clouds on Earth"-except these are made of mercury, explained astrophysicist Oleg Kochukhov at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Investigating these metal clouds might shed light on how elements form inside stars.
Read it all at:
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