Our gas giants spin slower than one might expect. Turns out gas giants outside of our solar system are also slower than originally what we might have thought! Today’s astrobite answers the question: What’s up with dat?
Nothing is easy when you have two stars instead of one. Under the right circumstances, it can be especially hard to hold on to your atmosphere.
Today’s paper explores different possibilities causing the brown dwarf CWW 89Ab to be overly bright.
Supernova remnant magnetic fields may play a key role in accelerating electrons to relativistic velocities. West et al. investigate the magnetic field conditions inside young supernova remnants and discover that they may not be as well-behaved as they appear.
Gravity turns gas into stars. Today’s astrobite introduces a new way to study gravity’s pull in a molecular cloud – the birthplace of new stars.
Today we review a study searching for a way to measure the ages of stars in a galaxy. The quantity of long period variable stars gives information about the life cycle of a galaxy, and the authors explain that with their new technique it is possible to take the “pulse” of a galaxy.