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Can Planets Survive Being Eaten?

The authors of today’s paper present a detection of a planet orbiting around its middle-aged host star – a star that was predicted to eat any planets in its way. Now the question remains, how does this planet exist?

New Clues in the CMB Cold (Spot) Case

20 years ago, WMAP discovered the anomalous Cold Spot in the CMB. Researchers have since been puzzling over its existence, but the case of the Cold Spot still remains open. Recently, researchers have proposed a theory that the foregrounds of a galaxy supergroup could be responsible for the Cold Spot. Could these foregrounds really be the culprit?

Tag you’re it!

Chemical tagging is the idea that using the chemistry of stars we can reconstruct their birth clusters. But can it actually be done?

Beyond astro-ph

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