Watch out! There’s double-faced white dwarfs about
How can one white dwarf have two different atmospheres? Today’s authors investigate the wacky behavior of ZTF J2033 to find out.
Is AT2018cow the Black Sheep of Transient Astronomy?
Does the UV emission from the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2018cow stand out from the herd? Read today’s bite to find out.
In the stellar kitchen: how mixing radiation and magnetic fields leads to smaller Population III stars
Today’s bite considers what ingredients you need when simulating the births of the earliest stars in the universe.
Help, there are too many binary black holes in here!
How does theory overpredict the number of black holes we see? And what can we do about it? Find out in today’s bite!
This just in: Multi-messenger merger made meticulously on massive supercomputer!
In this Astrobite, the authors study the incredible physics of a binary neutron star merger by performing the longest ever simulation on a supercomputer!
A New Icarus: Disintegrating Rocky Exoplanet BD+054868 Ab
Today’s bite tells the story of BD+054868 Ab, a rocky exoplanet that is being vaporised for getting too close to its host star.