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Artist’s impression of a red-dwarf star’s magnetic interaction with its exoplanet. Using the ASTRONled Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming from the nearby red dwarf star GJ1151. The radio waves bear the tell-tale signature of aurorae caused by an interaction between a star and its planet. The radio emission from a star-planet interaction has been long predicted but this is the first time astronomers have been able to discern its signature.
Credit: Danielle Futselaar – artsource.nl
Contact – The SKA magazine
Contact is the SKA magazine. Published by SKAO's Communications team, the magazine brings together articles from scientists, engineering, design and construction teams, related facilities and telescopes and government partners. In this issue we cover the signing of the SKA treaty and the inauguration of the SKA's Global Headquarters. Also featured is the SKA's first science data challenge for the community, a testing campaign on SKA-Low prototype antennas using drones, as well as a touring exhibition in India and many more contributions covering updates from around the world!
About Contact
Editor: William Garnier / W.Garnier@skatelescope.org
Editorial team: Mathieu Isidro, Cassandra Cavallaro / skao-outreach@skatelescope.org
Design: Joe Diamond / Based on an original design from Carbon Creative.
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Contact is produced primarily as a digital magazine.
About the SKA
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation leads an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope. The SKA will be constructed in Australia and South Africa with a later expansion in both countries and into other African countries. Its global headquarters is located at Jodrell Bank in the UK. The SKA will conduct transformational science and help to address fundamental gaps in our understanding of the Universe including the formation and evolution of galaxies, fundamental physics in extreme environments and the origins of life in the Universe.
