Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Stella Offner
Today we interview Dr. Stella Offner, who is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and one of this year’s #AAS245 Plenary speakers!
AGB stars can have a little PIE, as a treat
Proton ingestion events in AGB stars are thought to trigger i-process nucleosynthesis. Today’s authors construct detailed stellar models to investigate this phenomenon!
Red Giants Have it All: Dark Matter Constraints from Stellar Evolution
How can astronomers use existing understandings of stellar evolution to better study dark matter?
Hiding in plain sight: Betelgeuse’s binary buddy
Could one of the most well-studied stars in the sky have a hidden binary companion? Today’s authors think so!
A Candidate Planet in the White Dwarf “Forbidden” Zone
It’s uncertain if exoplanets survive the deaths of their host stars, but now astronomers have found exactly that: a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a White Dwarf!
Supernovae in the Super-Early Universe
Today’s bite explores the star formation history of galaxies in the early universe using chemical signals of stellar deaths.