To Gaia and Beyond!
With the release of Gaia DR3 just around the corner, this article highlights science discoveries made possible by Gaia DR2 thus far!
With the release of Gaia DR3 just around the corner, this article highlights science discoveries made possible by Gaia DR2 thus far!
A powerful new tool combines data from Gaia and the Hubble Space Telescope and accurately measures how stars move on the plane of the sky. Find out how it’s done in today’s Astrobite!
T Pyx is a mystery. The stellar systems appears to contain a white dwarf and companion star. However, the white dwarf is accreting mass from its companion way faster and way more efficiently than it should, resulting in novae eruptions every 30 years.
Today’s authors may have found the culprit for these frequent explosive hydrogen burnings, which should not be possible in theory.
In today’s post, we interview Dr. Ekta Patel, a Miller postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, about her astronomy journey.
Binary star systems host exoplanets too! But are planetary orbits aligned or misaligned relative to the stellar companion?
Today’s authors use stellar chemistry and kinematics to identify the moment our Milky Way cooked up its disk.