Looking at the Insides of Stars
Planet-finding missions don’t just help us discover new planets — they can also be used to study internal motions in stars!
Planet-finding missions don’t just help us discover new planets — they can also be used to study internal motions in stars!
Why are some cluster stars unusually bright and blue? A closer look at the Collinder 261 open cluster sheds some light on these straggling members.
Astrobites reports on the properties of one active galaxy’s nucleus — which could help solve a long-standing mystery about X-rays in our universe.
Look closely at this radio image and you might see why scientists have named this phenomenon a radio “harp”.
Collisions of tiny galaxies may be responsible for forming the black-hole binaries that we’ve recently seen merge.
How can solar physicists analyze their mountains of observational data? A new Python-based software package may help.
Astrobites reports on the TESS mission’s discovery of an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of its star — and the puzzle of how this system formed.
Why do many young stars undergo bright outbursts? New observations of a flaring system may provide an answer.
What were the first galaxies up to? New radio observations tell us about star formation when the universe was only a billion years old.
A recent study has unveiled a new discovery at the heart of globular cluster Omega Centauri: five long-anticipated pulsars.
The exoplanet hunter TESS is out searching for new worlds — but on this occasion, it saw an old one in a new light. Astrobites reports.
A recent study explores the population of stars that lies deep in the heart of the Rosette Nebula.