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What We Don’t Know About Protoplanetary Disks

by Lauren Sgro | Mar 26, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries

Protoplanetary disks may be the birth place of planets, but they also throw astronomers for a loop in today’s paper.

Potential Planets in the Bulge

Potential Planets in the Bulge

by Lauren Sgro | Dec 4, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries

Five candidate exoplanets have been found! Read this bite to find out if there are aliens on them! Just kidding… but today’s paper does cover how these candidates were found as well as their potential properties.

Mind the (Gaia) Gap

Mind the (Gaia) Gap

by Lauren Sgro | Oct 23, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries

Today’s authors find a strange feature in the main sequence of the Gaia HR Diagram. Read to see what this says about M stars!

Magnetar Madness in Super Luminous Supernovae

Magnetar Madness in Super Luminous Supernovae

by Lauren Sgro | Oct 10, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries

Today’s paper explores whether magnetars could be the instigator behind some strange supernovae.

Disk-Bearing Binaries & Potential Tatooines

Disk-Bearing Binaries & Potential Tatooines

by Lauren Sgro | Aug 13, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries

Are planets just as likely to form around binary stars as they are around single stars? Today’s authors are asking this very question.

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