Stellar Pentuplets!
Five young stars in one system — all the same age but at different stages of their evolution. What can they tell us?
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.
There are weird dots in the sky…
Sometimes a mystery can hide in apparently plain things. Astronomers have just discovered that a delta Scuti star known for over 40 years is actually something entirely different and full of peculiarities.
Image via M. Garlick/University of Warwick, ESA/Hubble.
A Planet Living on the Edge
A gravitational tug-of-war between three stars has this planet living on the edge.
Weathering the storm or rising from the ashes? The circumbinary planets of NN Serpentis
NN Serpentis has everything: a white dwarf + main sequence binary system that is believed to contain two planets and, now, a disc of debris.
Hot Jupiters prefer long distance relationships
How can we explain hot Jupiters? The answer is not completely clear yet, but we are closing in on it: it seems that binaries may play an important role on the formation of these oddball planets.