UR: Phase Difference and Metallicity of RR Lyrae Variable Stars
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, explore how Anna McElhannon is investigating the relationship between pulsation and metallicity in RR Lyrae stars!
Searching for Megastructures
New research models how megastructures such as Dyson Spheres can influence the properties of their host star.
UR: Using Gaussian Processes to Study Exoplanet Transits and Stellar Variability Simultaneously
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Larissa Palethorpe finds a way to get more information out of transit light curves.
Video Did Not Kill the Radio Star
What if the northern lights danced around the poles of…stars? Today’s authors investigate strange radio emission from our smallest stellar neighbors.
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!