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Evaporating Disks With Massive Stars
Radiation from massive stars can melt away protoplanetary disks. What can the leftover disks tell us about the environment from which they formed?
Teaching an old dog new tricks: Applying color-magnitude diagrams to semi-resolved galaxies
Applying color-magnitude diagrams to distant, semi-resolved galaxies may break new ground in understanding stellar populations on a massive scale.
Let’s talk about Exoplanetary Photospheres
How, and when does the wavelength dependence of photospheric radius of an eclipsing exoplanet become too important to neglect?
A Protoplanetary Disk with a Tail
The sites of planet formation seem to be anything but orderly and a recent discovery may help explain the observed wide variety of exoplanet configurations.
Avoiding a (thermonuclear) supernova
Discovery of a circumstellar nebula with a hot central star – product of a white dwarf merger?
When the Sky Isn’t the Limit: Simulations of Imaging a Black Hole from Space
Recently, the world saw the first-ever images of a black hole’s shadow. Future images could be sharper with space-based telescopes!
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