In a new study led by Dr. Abi Frost (ESO, Chile) published in Science, astronomers including Dr. Dominic Bowman of the SYMPHONY team have unveiled the merger history of how a magnetic massive star in a binary system gained its magnetic field.

 

Newcastle University press release: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/.../latest/2024/04/magneticstar/

 

Paper published in Science: http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7700

 

Image Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU.