Smoons, Ploonets, and Circumbinary Planets, Oh My!
Every exomoon deserves the chance to fly!
Hiding in plain sight: Betelgeuse’s binary buddy
Could one of the most well-studied stars in the sky have a hidden binary companion? Today’s authors think so!
Stealth Binary Stars Caught out by Tattle-tale Exoplanets
How do you find an exoplanet around two stars? Find out in today’s article!
Could binaries grow the globular cluster family tree?
The presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters has puzzled astronomers for decades. Today’s paper investigates whether binary stellar mergers could explain this strange phenomenon!
UR: Blue stars that should not exist
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover Yanbo Pan’s work on the evolution of blue straggler stars.
The Milky Way’s biggest stellar-mass black hole? In MY unreleased Gaia data? It’s more likely than you think!
Gaia’s fourth data release won’t be publicly available until the end of 2025. Today’s paper reports a discovery from the preliminary data that was just too exciting to keep secret!