For several years now, there has been considerable interest in circumbinary planets – that is to say, planets that orbit both stars in a binary system. They pose many interesting questions, such as, “How does their formation differ from planets in single-star systems?”, “What will happen to them when the stars evolve?”, and of course, “Could humans live there?” It was because of questions like these that the authors of today’s paper turned their telescopes on KIC 7177553.
Preliminary results from a new survey looking for ultra-bright galaxies in the early universe.
Supermassive stars may be the seeds of supermassive black holes. But where and how do these seeds form?
Today’s paper explores the galactic homes of superluminous supernovae — some of the brightest explosions in our universe.
What if I told you it was true? All of it.
Sherlocks Holmes investigates the scene of a crime for clues about whodunit. Today’s paper investigates the massacre of circumstellar disks in a star cluster for clues about the cluster itself.