Do you like your star plain or with extra pepperoni? Starspots sit on the surface of a star like the pizza toppings on a pizza, and today’s astrobite looks at how starspot coverage changes for stars at different ~slices~ of their lifetimes.
Today’s paper looks at two types of lenticular galaxies — seemingly alike, they took very different evolutionary paths.
Today’s guest post explores a galaxy whose mysterious clump is puzzling astronomers who are trying to pinpoint its origin.
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?
Today’s guest post looks a gas cloud situated between galaxies that seems to lack the presence of metals!