Can you tell if a star got too close to a black hole?
The authors of today’s paper study emission lines in a spectrum to determine if they are caused by a star falling into a black hole!
Uh oh, some Black Holes are experiencing Middle Child Syndrome!
Find out which ones and what the authors of today’s paper do to help!
Rapidly Rotating But Not So Variable: A Brown Dwarf As Seen From Earth
Brown Dwarfs can have swirling cloudy atmospheres just like their planetary cousins, but, as observed from the ground, the subject of today’s bite isn’t quite so variable after all.
An Updated Weather Forecast for HAT-P-7b
HAT-P-7b was one of the first exoplanets with evidence of atmospheric variability, but hold off on your application to be its resident weather forecaster! Today’s paper casts a shadow on the original detection…
UR: A Spectroscopic Study on Hα Variability
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, Stan DeLaurentiis asks how reliable our Hα measurements of low-mass stars really are? And are they really solely influenced by a star’s magnetic activity?
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Quasar
Can the ‘twinkle’ of an infrared source be used to find AGN?