Astronomers Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time
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CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins87% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 87%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterThe paper appeared on arXiv[3] as 2609.16720 and was reported by Phys.org[1], Sci.News[2] and Astrobiology.com in the last week of September 2026; the pin uses 24 September, the date of the Astrobiology.com listing.
Using South Africa's MeerKAT array, a Harvard & Smithsonian team reports the first direct detection of auroral radio emission from a planet outside the Solar System, implying a magnetic field of at least 1,250 gauss on the giant planet Beta Pictoris b.
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