Listening to the Stars: The First Radio Signal From an Exoplanet

Tune in to explore a milestone in astronomy: for the first time, scientists have detected direct radio signals from an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b.

Learn how researchers used distant quasars as cosmic GPS to measure the massive planet's intense magnetic field and hear what this breakthrough means for the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system.  

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