What is causing these Little Dippers?
Could exocomets be causing these strange shaped lightcurves?
Could exocomets be causing these strange shaped lightcurves?
Sherlocks Holmes investigates the scene of a crime for clues about whodunit. Today’s paper investigates the massacre of circumstellar disks in a star cluster for clues about the cluster itself.
A wealth of observations tell an active accretion story within the Lambda Orionis Star Forming Region, at the head of the Orion constellation.
What happens when an asteroid and a white dwarf (WD) meet? The asteroid doesn’t get the better end of the deal — and the WD might end up with a brand new debris disk.
Many Super-Earths appear to be less dense than the Earth. How do such planets form? Could a rocky Super-Earth accrete a hydrogen-helium atmosphere in-situ?
Every 27.1 years, the ε Aurigae system gets dimmer and stays dim for two years. What is causing the dip in brightness? Have Hoard et al. uncovered the invisible monster?