Featured Image: Explosive Star Formation
How does a massive star form and grow? Certainly not peacefully! A new study explores clues revealed by a powerful recent explosion.
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Sampling the Solar Wind with the Parker Solar Probe
Now that it’s “touched” the Sun, will the Parker Solar Probe help solve the mysteries surrounding the cause of solar wind?
Exploring a Magnetospheric Origin for Fast Radio Bursts
Highly magnetic neutron stars called magnetars might be responsible for many powerful radio bursts — but can these bursts really escape a magnetar’s intense magnetic fields?
A Magnetic Map of the Silent Sun
Astrobites reports on our Sun’s alternation between phases of tempest and tranquility, driven by its magnetic field roughly every 11 years. It has been difficult to measure the magnetic strength when the Sun goes silent — until now.
Virtual AAS 239 Programming: Days 4 & 5
This week we’re reporting on the virtual programming associated with the canceled 239th AAS meeting. Here are the highlights from Days 4 and 5!
Virtual AAS 239 Programming: Day 3
This week we’re reporting on the virtual programming associated with the canceled 239th AAS meeting. Here are the highlights from Day 3!
Virtual AAS 239 Programming: Day 2
This week we’re reporting on the virtual programming associated with the canceled 239th AAS meeting. Here are the highlights from Day 2!
Virtual AAS 239 Programming: Day 1
This week we’re reporting on the virtual programming associated with the canceled 239th AAS meeting. Here are the highlights from Day 1!
Join Us This Week for Virtual AAS 239 Press Conferences (and More!)
This week, we’re hosting eight virtual press conferences — tune in or follow along here for the latest newsworthy science results!
An Inclination to Search for a Dynamic Past
What’s caused the strange misalignment in 14 Herculis’s planets? An unstable origin, or a pesky passerby?
How Massive Are White Dwarfs? Their Stellar Companions Weigh In
A new study of white dwarfs in binary systems raises questions about the connection between the mass of a star and the mass of the white dwarf it leaves behind.
A Star’s Final Words
Astrobites reports on a star that spoke its final words in the form of a long brightening before exploding as a supernova.