Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds

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Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting observations of some exoplanets.

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[Torbjorn Larsson]

Those can be strong effects too:

Accounting for stellar activity can significantly alter planetary atmospheric parameters like molecular abundances (up to 6 orders of magnitude) and temperature (up to 145%), contrasting with the results of analyses that neglect activity.