by Matthew Green | Apr 26, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
In Be/X-ray binaries — systems in which a Be star spins so fast that it throws its own matter away towards its neutron star companion — it’s possible for accretion discs to form that spin backwards. What does this mean for the stars?
by Matthew Green | Mar 23, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
2 new globular clusters detected by Gaia, and what we know about them.
by Matthew Green | Feb 6, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
A star that spins fast enough to throw off its atmosphere, and a hint at how it got that way.
by Matthew Green | Dec 23, 2016 | Daily Paper Summaries
New polarisation data confirms that pulsations from a white dwarf system are powered by the same process that causes pulsars.
by Matthew Green | Nov 16, 2016 | Daily Paper Summaries
Are Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri part of the same system?