Asteroid vs. White Dwarf
What happens when an asteroid and a white dwarf (WD) meet? The asteroid doesn’t get the better end of the deal — and the WD might end up with a brand new debris disk.
A Binary Butterfly
This paper looks into the heart of Minkowski’s Butterfly Nebula to answer the question: is there one star or two at work in the formation and evolution of this nebula?
No Shocks for This Bow: IBEX Says We’re Wrong
Recent data from IBEX has revealed that our decades-old model of the heliosphere is wrong: there is no bow shock ahead of the heliosphere in the ISM.
What happens when WIMPs collide — with you?
If WIMPs are the solution to the dark matter problem, it’s reasonable to ask what sort of impact they would have on human beings. This paper answers that question.
Tilting Disks to Speed Up Accretion
How fast can you grow a supermassive black hole by accretion? That depends on how much you tilt the disk…