ExSS IV: Welcome!
This week we’re at the ExSS IV exoplanet meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland. Follow along for some of the latest updates!
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Launching a Stellar Superflare
Superflares are immense stellar outbursts that are often accompanied by coronal mass ejections. What can we learn from simulations of these energetic events?
A Nearby Stellar Stream Gets Carded
The Pisces–Eridanus stellar stream may try to pass itself off as a billion years old, but scientists are calling its bluff.
Does an AGN Help or Hurt Star Formation?
Astrobites reports on how the impressive twin outflows created by an energetic galaxy nucleus might affect its star formation.
Featured Image: Growing Globular Clusters from Mergers
Could globular clusters rise from the wreckage of a dwarf-galaxy collision? New simulations are helping us to find out.
Spotting Molecular Gas in the Distant Universe
A new study has discovered molecular gas, the dense fuel for star formation, farther out in our universe than ever before.
An “Impossible” White Dwarf Identified in Kepler Data
The latest discovery in the Kepler mission data? A light white dwarf that defies all expectations.
Heating Up the Guts of Gas Giants
Astrobites reports on how hot Jupiters’ toasty exteriors affect their atmospheres and deep interiors.
Using Mergers to Understand Neutron Stars
Can the mergers of neutron stars with another type of exotic object, black holes, reveal important information?
Not so Fast: Some Stars Show a Spin-down Slowdown
Take a moment to relax with today’s post about stellar rotation slowdown. All the stars are winding down, too — or are they?
Inferring History from Atmospheres
Can we use clues from the present to figure out how a planet has been blasted by the radiation of its host star in the past?
Making It Rain in the Circumgalactic Medium
Astrobites reports on how enhanced resolution in cosmological simulations has now revealed new structure in the circumgalactic medium.