A Treasure Map of Massive Stars
The authors of today’s paper take us on a treasure hunt of baby massive stars, come join us!
The authors of today’s paper take us on a treasure hunt of baby massive stars, come join us!
What makes up the innards of the brightest galaxy in the universe?
Finding circumstellar disks in the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer data is a tough job, but fortunately our brains are even better suited to the task than computers! You can help by lending your pattern-recognition skills to Disk Detective, the Zooniverse’s newest citizen science project.
A new brown dwarf system has been discovered only 2 parsec away; Gillon et al. analyze its light curve to study clouds on the surfaces of these stars.
With the addition of these 87 new T dwarfs, WISE has now tripled the number of known T dwarfs with spectral type later than T5.
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data release promises many new and exciting discoveries!