A JuMBO surprise challenges theories of planet formation
You’ve heard of binary stars, but what about binary planets? Discovered in October 2023, these unusual systems are making astronomers rethink how planets form.
Oh no, where’d your envelope go? The discovery of intermediate-mass stripped stars in the Magellanic Clouds
Stars of all masses can have their outer layers stripped away during interactions with a binary companion. Today’s paper reports the first-ever discovery of intermediate-mass stripped stars, which are thought to be the main progenitors of stripped-envelope supernovae!