Honey, I shrunk the orbit!
Today’s post describes the discovery of Kepler’s first planet candidate spiraling into its star!
Today’s post describes the discovery of Kepler’s first planet candidate spiraling into its star!
Betelgeuse faded dramatically in 2019 and 2020. Fortunately a team of star doctors…(err, astrophysicists) have diagnosed the problem!
Chemical elements are pretty good history teachers! Today’s paper describes how chemical abundances can tell us about the history of where a planet formed.
This bite summarizes Andrew Skumanich’s 1972 paper that established the foundation of the field of Gyrochronology.
Today’s authors investigate a young star hosting an exoplanet, and watch as its X-ray flares speed up the planet’s evaporation!
Today’s authors investigate the sudden re-appearance of X-ray emission from a star being eaten by a supermassive black hole!