Galactic Smashes and Stellar Crashes: Forming Dense Star Clusters
You know the saying: “when gas-rich galaxies collide, young massive star clusters will soon reside” … well maybe you’ll know the saying after reading this astrobite!
Kickin’ It Into Overdrive With Stellar Escapees
Follow along as we zoom through the stars with these hypervelocity stellar survivors and uncover their explosive origins.
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Planets are supposed to be effective at blocking the radial drift of icy pebbles around nascent stars forming planets – but the young planets around PDS 70 don’t appear to be doing a very good job…
One is the Loneliest Number: Destroying Planet-Planet Binaries
JWST’s discovery of free-floating binary planetary-mass objects came as quite a surprise and tests theories of planet formation. Today’s paper investigates whether dynamical encounters in dense star-forming regions could destroy such binary systems.
An Exercise in Satellite Mission Design: Instrument Requirements
In today’s bite we are once again revisiting the mission design concept MAUVE to learn how science objectives drive instrument design requirements!
Using Large-scale structures and gravitational wave sources to measure the expansion rate
In today’s astrobite we explore a new approach that has been developed to measure the Universal expansion rate, involving gravitational waves from merging black holes and the large-scale structure of the Universe.