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.
An H II Region Walks into A Bar
High resolution observations of the Orion Nebula show a complex collision between two extreme types of gas.
There are weird dots in the sky…
Sometimes a mystery can hide in apparently plain things. Astronomers have just discovered that a delta Scuti star known for over 40 years is actually something entirely different and full of peculiarities.
Image via M. Garlick/University of Warwick, ESA/Hubble.
Mass Loss in Dying Stars
By the time a star becomes a white dwarf, much of its mass will have been lost. When does this mass loss occur and what drives it? Read today’s astrobite to find out.