Cloudy with a Chance of Wind
A new look at Saturn’s windy weather.
KELT-16b: a new benchmark for future exoplanet atmosphere studies
On KELT-16b you would melt. I would melt too. A look at an exciting and newly discovered Hot Jupiter, and why KELT-16b is a valuable addition to the group of boiling gas giant planets, and a fantastic target for future atmospheric studies.
Further constraints on how to form planets
Observing protoplanetary disks with ALMA yields astonishing information about structures in disks. Today’s astrobite presents and discusses a thrilling disk with an inner dust cavity, as well as gaps and rings. Moreover the gaseous disk extends to much larger radii in gas than the dusty disk and may possibly be evidence for radial drift and effects of planet formation.
A Tale Etched in Time
There she blows! A detective case tracking the motion of material ejected from a star to figure out when the star exploded.
An H II Region Walks into A Bar
High resolution observations of the Orion Nebula show a complex collision between two extreme types of gas.
A planet greeting from the danger zone
Stars at later stages of their evolution lack planets at small orbits, which is believed to be a consequence of disruption. However, the authors of the featured article found a large planet around a star at a late stage of its evolution.