Planet Formation on a Budget
There does not seem to be enough mass in protoplanetary disks to build the planetary systems we’ve detected. The solution: planet formation might start sooner than previously thought.
Cold Brown Dwarfs
Y dwarfs are the coolest end of the stellar classification scheme, and studying these often cloudy objects comes with plenty of challenges.
Gamma Ray Bursts vs. All Life on Earth
Asteroids and volcanoes are familiar harbingers of global doom. But what about Gamma Ray Bursts? Is another doomsday lurking?
Tipping the Spherical Cow: The Initial Conditions of Star Formation
Spherical cows have a long and storied history in physics, but does this type of crude approximation lead to realistic conclusions in the case of star formation? The combination of large- and small- scale simulations tests this idea.
Spinning pair-instability supernovae
How does a massive star’s rotation affect the properties of its eventual explosion?
MUSEing on positive feedback
Direct observational evidence for positive feedback from the interaction of outbursts from active black holes and the surrounding medium has been lacking so far, until now…