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Analysis of a series of measurements of the solar diameter taken 1655–1736 in the meridian line of the Basilica of San Petronio (Bologna, Italy) indicate there was no increase in solar diameter during the Maunder Minimum.
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A systematic search for stellar groups in the Taurus field has yielded 22 groups, including 8 young (2–4 Myr) groups at distances of ~130–170 pc, and 14 old (8–49 Myr) groups at distances of ~110–210 pc.
S. E. Woosley and Alexander Heger 2021 ApJL 912 L31
New calculations explore four factors affecting the theoretical boundaries of the pair instability black-hole mass gap: nuclear reaction rates, evolution in detached binaries, rotation, and hyper-Eddington accretion after birth.
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ALMA observations of TWA 3, a nearby, young (~10 Myr) hierarchical system composed of three pre-main-sequence M3–M4.5 stars, reveal the presence of a circumbinary protoplanetary disk around TWA 3A.
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ALMA observations of a protoplanetary disk surrounding ZZ Tau IRS reveal asymmetry that points to giant planet formation around this low-mass star — an outcome that challenges existing core accretion models.
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Orbilander, a mission concept that would first orbit and then land on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, could collect and analyze plume material from orbit and the moon’s surface to search for life.