Dancing with the (Six) Stars, or, a 200 year story of the Castor system
Astronomers study the orbits of a sextuplet system, an absurdly complex arrangement of six stars in orbit around one another, in order to measure their masses once and for all.
Could Stripped Stars be False Positives in the Search for the Missing Black Holes?
The authors of today’s article argue that stripped B-type stars could be a source of false positives in the search for quiet, stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way
Don’t Cool Your Jets Quite Yet!
Don’t jet-off just yet, today’s astrobite covers a recent paper that surveys the exciting jets of the youngest stellar objects.
Spotting Spots on Other Stars
What does the surface of a star look like? Today’s authors observe ζ And using long-baseline interferometry to find out!
Making a “Mega-Telescope” for Exoplanets
How can we combine multiple telescopes to learn about exoplanets? Interferometry!
Subgiant in the spotlight: characterising a new benchmark star
Today’s authors take a multi-faceted approach to characterising a benchmark subgiant star using asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectroscopy.