Stars in binaries can have very unusual evolutionary paths, which can also affect their chemistry! Today’s paper takes a look at one such peculiarity: Mass transfer, and it’s resultant heavy element enhancement.
By rewinding the orbits of hypervelocity stars, today’s authors discover something unusual about the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy.
How do you distinguish between home-grown and imported stars in the Milky Way? You use the Gaia space observatory, of course!
Nearby in the Milky Way, the Radcliffe Wave hosts a dense concentration of dust, gas, and star clusters. And in the past few million years, the Sun might have passed right through it! But what effect did that have on our own Earth?
New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies, named after a Greek goddess.
Today’s bite showcases the detection of an elusive intermediate-mass black hole hiding in our very own Galaxy!