Are Stellar Storms Bad News for M-Dwarf Planets?
M dwarfs like V374 Peg or even the nearby Proxima Centauri are likely to have major stellar storms. What impact could this activity have on planets in the stars’ habitable zones?
M dwarfs like V374 Peg or even the nearby Proxima Centauri are likely to have major stellar storms. What impact could this activity have on planets in the stars’ habitable zones?
Astrobites reports on recent simulations studying how the extremely powerful, active centers of some galaxies might have formed.
Hubble’s STIS instrument has made several new observations of debris disks around three nearby solar-analog stars.
A new study has used a computer algorithm to uncover many of the bones that make up the skeleton of the Milky Way.
Astrobites reports on the discovery of a debris disc strewn around a white dwarf star — all that is now left of what was once likely a planetary system.
Astrobites reports on a solution to the tricky process of looking for something you can’t see — like isolated black holes.
Minor planets Chariklo and Chiron were recently discovered to have ring systems. Could they have formed when the minor planets got a little too close to a giant?
How has the distribution of coronal holes — holes in the Sun’s upper atmosphere through which the fast solar wind escapes — changed over the last 40 years?
Astrobites reports on the oldest shock wave we’ve ever found, which is moving at 5 million miles per hour and was created by the collision of two galaxy clusters!
This contrast-enhanced image of the Milky Way from the WISE satellite reveals the X-shaped morphology of our galactic bulge.
Is dark matter “cold”, “warm”, or “hot”? New observations are helping us identify what makes up our universe.
We’ve spent the last couple decades searching for planets around our nearest stellar neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. Here’s a look at what we’ve learned so far.