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Stars Have Earth-like weather

space.com: The skies of stars might experience weather like that on planets, says astrophysicist Oleg Kochukhov and colleagues at Uppsala University in Sweden. The drifting clouds are wispy, "just like cirrus clouds on Earth"-except these are made of mercury, he adds. The research in publish online in Nature Physics.

Posted by Physics Today on June 25, 2007 11:18 AM |

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