Settling the Proxima Centauri Question
Are Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri part of the same system?
Evolution in the Stellar Nursery
Do baby stars like it hot or cold? Learning about the dusty environments where stars are born.
Getting distances from stars that touch
Contact binaries are stars so close together that they touch…and that might be enough for us to know how far away they are.
Gravity-Darkened Seasons on Planets
Spinning stars can potentially double the number of seasons that a planet experiences due to surface temperature variations on the stellar surface.
KELT-16b: a new benchmark for future exoplanet atmosphere studies
On KELT-16b you would melt. I would melt too. A look at an exciting and newly discovered Hot Jupiter, and why KELT-16b is a valuable addition to the group of boiling gas giant planets, and a fantastic target for future atmospheric studies.
A Tale Etched in Time
There she blows! A detective case tracking the motion of material ejected from a star to figure out when the star exploded.