Polka-Dotted Stars: Searching for Spots on KOI-340
Today’s authors search for polka dots of concentrated magnetic flux on the surface of a subgiant star.
The Birth of a Baby Planet
Today’s authors have witnessed the tumultuous birth of a massive planet on the outskirts of its star system.
Grab your umbrellas, ’cause it’s raining grazing planets!
Today’s author gets out their umbrella to model planets that graze their stellar hosts.
Into the (Double) Void
Today’s authors discovered not one, but two supermassive black holes! And they’re the closest pair to Earth that we’ve ever detected.
Video Did Not Kill the Radio Star
What if the northern lights danced around the poles of…stars? Today’s authors investigate strange radio emission from our smallest stellar neighbors.