Finding The Epsilon Lupi Magnetic Field Gives Scientists An Idea About Creation Of Stars

Scientists have found a binary system involving two stars which have a magnetic field. It enhances scientific discovery on the formation of stars, according to the Canada Journal.

This is part of the star system category, in which there are two or more stars orbiting around a common mass center. The Epsilon Lupi star system is composed of a pair of stars that are 500 light years away but are circling around the same center.

This offers the opportunity to examine why stars have magnetic fields or are the cause of it, Sci-News reported.

While the stars are almost eight times bigger than the mass of our solar system, they could become 6,000 times brighter if they are put together.

How do stars form these magnetic fields? They either create the field as the star is being formed or emerge after two stars come together to become one star, according to Astronomy.com.

"This discovery allows us to rule out the binary merger scenario," said Matt Shultz of Queen's University. "However, it doesn't change the basic finding of the BinaMIcS collaboration- fewer than 2 percent of massive stars in close binaries have magnetic fields, and we still don't know why that is."