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When Bright Spots Go Dark
4+ day, 13+ hour 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…...
Thermal Electrons Can Explain the Mysterious Radio Behavior of a Tidal Disruption Event
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (316+ words) Editor’s Note: Astrobites is a graduate-student-run organization that digests astrophysical literature for undergraduate students. As part of the partnership between the AAS and astrobites, we occasionally repost astrobites content here at AAS Nova. We hope you enjoy this post from…...
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
1+ week, 6+ day 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,…...