Radio Pulsars: How Slow Do They Go?
The discovery of PSR J0250+5854, the slowest radio pulsar, has everyone wondering – how slow does a pulsar need to spin before its radio beam turns off?
It’s Getting Hot, Hot, Hot With Coronal Loops
Are sunspots the key to answering the decades-old solar coronal heating problem? The authors of today’s paper observe a few sunspot groups to find out.
A Planetary Death Census
Planets are occasionally found swallowed by their dying host stars. Where and how often does this happen?
Evaporating Disks With Massive Stars
Radiation from massive stars can melt away protoplanetary disks. What can the leftover disks tell us about the environment from which they formed?
A Strange Type of Matter May Lie at the Heart of Neutron Stars
A mysterious type of matter, quark-gluon plasma, may lie at the heart of neutron stars.
Looks like the Sun, but does it spin like the Sun: measuring differential rotation in 16 Cyg A & B
The Sun is known to rotate differentially, which plays a large part in our understanding of solar physics. Do we see the same differential rotation in Solar analogues, 16 Cyg A & B?