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?
Today we interview Dr. Stella Offner, who is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and one of this year’s #AAS245 Plenary speakers!
Understanding the compositions of exoplanets it a key piece to understanding their formation as well as their chemistry. But how can we do that?
High-velocity stars are interesting both in their origins and in what they can be used to study. Today’s paper takes a brief dive into tackling both of these questions.
Today we interview Dr. Kerstin Perez, who is the Lavine Family Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences in the Department of Physics at Columbia University for her Plenary Lecture at #AAS244!