Some supernovae have bumpy light curves – could a baby neutron star repeatedly diving into the envelope of its inflated companion be the cause? Today’s authors simulate this to find out!
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!
Follow along as we zoom through the stars with these hypervelocity stellar survivors and uncover their explosive origins.
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…
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.
In today’s bite we are once again revisiting the mission design concept MAUVE to learn how science objectives drive instrument design requirements!