#stellar masses

[skycrorg]

🌌✨ Using the U.S. National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (NSF VLBA), an international team led by Sergio A. Dzib (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy) and co-led by Jazmín Ordoñez-Toro (Astronomical Observatory, Universidad de Nariño) has measured the dynamical masses of young binary stars in the Orion star-forming complex with sub-milliarcsecond precision. 📡🔭 By tracking the orbital motion of these tightly bound pairs at 5 GHz — a wavelength at which Orion's dense dust becomes transparent — the DYNAMO-VLBA program turns Orion into a precision laboratory for testing models of pre-main-sequence stellar evolution. The results, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, reveal mismatches with standard models, hidden close companions, and persistent magnetic activity in surprisingly massive young stars.

Orbital choreography turns Orion into a precision laboratory for young-star masses

[myfavoriteredhead]

A Hot Discovery

It was unknown whether planets can form in dense environments until a team of scientists from Georgia State University and colleagues in California observed planets orbiting stars in the Beehive stellar cluster.  Such planets are called "hot Jupiters" because they are gaseous and well...hot.  The star that the two detected planets orbit is similar to our galaxy's sun.  The planets were observed with a 1.5-meter Tillinghast telescope at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory.  They were noted by measuring "the slight gravitational wobble the orbiting planets induce upon their host stars" (GSU).  This raises the questions like what other unlikely locations in the universe planets may be found and how did the hot Jupiters end up so close to the sun-star, 

[brahameirssonssleftnipple]

HOW DO PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE A BLACKHOLE

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HOW DO PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE A STELLAR MASS???