ASHES to ASHES, Dust to… Star Formation?
Massive star formation is still a MASSIVE question mark. Today’s paper explores one of the environments where it may take place, looking for signatures of protostars deep within dust clouds.
Hey, you’ve got some planet stuck in your teeth…
Take a bite out of today’s post, where the authors explore the occurrence rate of planetary ingestion in wide binary stellar systems. Turns out that about a fourth of Sun-like stars in wide binaries may ingest their planetary companions. Yum!
The Last Message of Devoured Planets
Traces of planets devoured by their host stars can possibly be found within the external layers of the stellar surface. These remains tell a story of the evolution and architecture of different planetary systems and grant new appreciation for our relatively calm environment.
Shouldn’t we be orbiting a red dwarf?
You may have heard of the Fermi Paradox, but have you heard of the Red Sky Paradox? Statistics argue that unless common red dwarf star systems are less habitable, it’s pretty unusual that we orbit a sun-like star.
A Disk And A Jet Walk Into A Star
The startender asks, “How are the three of you working together?!”
UR: A Spectroscopic Study on Hα Variability
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, Stan DeLaurentiis asks how reliable our Hα measurements of low-mass stars really are? And are they really solely influenced by a star’s magnetic activity?