Cosmic Cannibalism: When Stars Eat Their Planets
Some stars hide a strange ingredient in their atmospheres: the remains of a planet they devoured. It turns out to be more common than expected.
Attack of the Planet-Killer Dark Matter
Today’s bite explores exoplanets’ newest predator: dark matter. Black holes made up of dark matter may be lying at the hearts of planets…and eating them from the inside out.
Michelangelo in Space – A Planet Carving the Fomalhaut Debris Disk?
The Fomalhaut debris disk is well-studied, but new analysis suggests that there may be a hidden planet we haven’t seen…
Finding Avatar’s Pandora: Exomoons with Astrometry
Though moons are ubiquitous in our Solar System, we have not yet found one elsewhere (an exomoon). Today’s paper investigates whether we could find moons by precisely tracking the positions of a star and planet.
The Radcliffe Wave (Or How Space Might Have Caused An Ice Age)
Nearby in the Milky Way, the Radcliffe Wave hosts a dense concentration of dust, gas, and star clusters. And in the past few million years, the Sun might have passed right through it! But what effect did that have on our own Earth?
A New Icarus: Disintegrating Rocky Exoplanet BD+054868 Ab
Today’s bite tells the story of BD+054868 Ab, a rocky exoplanet that is being vaporised for getting too close to its host star.