by Alexandra Masegian | Feb 28, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
Stars of all masses can have their outer layers stripped away during interactions with a binary companion. Today’s paper reports the first-ever discovery of intermediate-mass stripped stars, which are thought to be the main progenitors of stripped-envelope supernovae!
by Diana Solano-Oropeza | Feb 22, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
Astronomers will literally see a very young star running away from its peers and call it a RATT.
by Catherine Slaughter | Feb 19, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
Today’s paper takes a look at circumstellar disks’ chemistries, and addresses how their chemical composition can be impacted by their host stars.
by Will Golay | Feb 13, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
Ever wondered what science gets done at the South Pole? It turns out that many astrophysics and cosmology experiments end up there!
by Caroline von Raesfeld | Feb 12, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
What can local metal-poor stars teach us about the earliest stars in the universe?
by Sahil Hegde | Dec 28, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Today’s authors try to use the behavior of ants to model streams of stars in our galaxy!