When a star blinked!
Today’s paper describes a very weird variable star that blinked!
Red giants and brown dwarfs – an unusual friendship
Mysterious long-timescale variations in the brightness of red giant stars have puzzled astronomers for a long time. The authors of today’s paper provide evidence that these variations are caused by a tiny brown dwarf orbiting the giant star.
Beating the blues – Hot companions of blue stragglers
Today’s paper searches for hot binary companions of blue straggler stars.
Did we just see two black holes merge?
Today’s paper describes how we may have seen light from two black holes colliding with each other.