How many astrophysicists does it take to catch a RATT?
Astronomers will literally see a very young star running away from its peers and call it a RATT.
Bad T-Tauri Star! No Dinner for You This Orbit!
How hard is it to feed a baby star? It might be harder than you think…
Parenting planets is a game-changer
How important is understanding the impact of stellar environment on stellar birth?
Three Stellar Populations? Unresolved Binaries? Mysteries of the Orion Nebula Cluster
Does the Orion Nebula Cluster actually include three distinct stellar populations? Or is it all just a bunch of unresolved binaries and triple systems?
First discovery of X-ray emission from young stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
For the first time, diffuse X-ray emission from young stars is identified in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using data from Chandra.
First GASPs of Star Formation in Taurus
The well-known constellation Taurus is home to many young stars, and the details of star formation are explained by observing far-infrared radiation from several of these objects with the Herschel space observatory.