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When Bright Spots Go Dark
5+ day, 7+ min ago (346+ words) Light and dark regions speckle the Sun and other stars, complicating the interpretation of exoplanet transmission spectra. New modeling suggests that faculae — bright areas on the visible surface of the Sun — appear dark on cooler stars, adding a new wrinkle…...
Primordial Planetesimals from the Guts of Population III Stars
1+ week, 4+ day ago (179+ words) While previous investigations of planet formation across the universe’s history suggest that planets trickled into the picture, a recent study has found that primordial planetesimals could have formed much earlier from the insides of the first stars in the universe....
Featured Image: A Pulsar in a Nebula in a Supernova Remnant
2+ week, 56+ min ago (259+ words) AAS Nova When a massive star collapses, the subsequent supernova can leave behind the starâs condensed core in the form of a neutron star Some neutron stars are also pulsars, which rotate at incredible speeds, emit beamed radio emission,…...