Featured Image: Simulating Planetary Gaps
Can we use observations of gaps in protoplanetary disks to estimate the mass of planets orbiting within them?
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Where Do Messy Planetary Nebulae Come From?
Many planetary nebulae are too “messy” in morphology to be explained by the standard model of how they form.
The Birth of Disks Around Protostars
How do the dusty disks around young stars first form and evolve around their newly born stars?
Preparing for the Temperature Drop at Night
How big is the dayside vs. nightside temperature difference for a tidally locked hot Jupiter? Astrobites reports on new models of these extreme exoplanet atmospheres.
A Challenge to Our View of How Stars Die
For the first time ever, we’ve been able to watch the complete metamorphosis of an unusual explosion from one type of supernova to another — challenging our understanding of the deaths of massive stars.
ALMA Explores How Supermassive Black Holes Talk to Their Galaxies
How do supermassive black holes and their host galaxies evolve in tandem? Observations from ALMA have revealed new clues about how the two might communicate.
A Planet Soon to Meet Its Demise
A tiny telescope has discovered a scalding hot world. KELT-16b may only be around for a few more hundreds of thousands of years, however.
Can You Tell a Sibling from a Doppelganger?
Astrobites reports on the usefulness of abundance analysis, or chemical tagging, to identify stars with a common birth. Do dopplegangers confuse the outcome?
Featured Image: Structures in the Interstellar Medium
A new survey has provided a high-resolution look at some of the structures in the diffuse hydrogen gas of our galaxy.
Revisiting Black Holes as Dark Matter
Could dark matter be made of intermediate-mass black holes formed in the beginning of the universe? A recent study takes a renewed look at this question.
Fixing the Big Bang Theory’s Lithium Problem
Scientists may have solved a decades-old puzzle about the formation of our universe.
Don’t Blame Asteroids for the Late Heavy Bombardment!
Astrobites reports on the large impactors that pelted the Moon until 3.8 billion years ago, creating huge craters that have survived to this day.