Novella of a Nova
Today’s paper details astronomers’ 150+ year vigil on T Coronae Borealis, a nova expected to erupt soon!
A Third Planet Orbits the 25th Nearest Star
One of the closest stars to our own Sun just got a third planet!
And I’m Free, Free-Floatin’… or am I?
TESS was designed to find transiting planets. Today’s authors use TESS to search for free-floating planets via gravitational lensing and find a candidate event.
Vulcan II: The Wrath of Stellar Activity
Of all the planets I have encountered in my travels, this one was… lousy stellar activity!
Catching a gamma-ray flare with the Event Horizon Telescope & friends
We have a new EHT image of a supermassive black hole, but that’s not all! Today’s paper gives us a multiwavelength view of M87 during a gamma-ray flare.
To Inspiral or Not to Inspiral
Close-in planets are expected to have shrinking orbits. Catching a planet decay on its way to the warm embrace of its star is however impressively difficult.