Judging a red supergiant book by its cover
What does the surface of a red supergiant star look like? It’s no polarising statement to say that it has more in common with a pot of bubbling soup than you might think!
Blown away by the stellar wind: Intermediate-mass black holes from very massive stars collapsing
Thick stellar winds might be blowing away the chances of forming intermediate-mass black holes from the collapse of very massive stars.
Michelangelo in Space – A Planet Carving the Fomalhaut Debris Disk?
The Fomalhaut debris disk is well-studied, but new analysis suggests that there may be a hidden planet we haven’t seen…
Are Water Worlds Just Made of Soot?
Are the low-density planets that keep popping up in our growing collection of exoplanets really the wet worlds that we imagine them to be? Join us today as we take a closer look at why they may actually be more similar to comets than anything else.
Hats Off to a Spectroscopic Study of Sombrero Galaxy Globular Clusters
You really have to tip your hat to the authors of today’s bite, who closely studied the dynamics and metallicities of the globular clusters of M104.
What doesn’t kill them makes them (marine microplankton) stronger
As the Sun bobs its head above and below the Galactic plane, the Earth’s marine microplankton flock in crowds to see the beautiful view.