An article published in the journal “Nature Astronomy” reports the first observation of a pair of protostars in the Perseus molecular cloud fed by a flow of gas and various compounds that formed in the parent cloud. A team of researchers led by Jaime Pineda of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) used the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) to study the protostellar binary system cataloged as Per-emb-2 (IRAS 03292+3039). They called that flow of gas and compounds a streamer tracing its movement from the boundaries of the parent cloud to its core, near the protostars. This also helps to better assess the importance of the local environment on the formation and evolution of disks in the systems in formation from which planets could be born.

An article to be published in “The Astrophysical Journal Letters” reports a study of the short gamma-ray burst cataloged as GRB181123B focusing on the discovery of what in jargon is called afterglow, in short, the residues of the emissions of GRB181123B, which in this case were detected at optical frequencies as well. The estimates indicate that that event was generated around ten billion years ago making it the most distant ever detected with an optical afterglow. Probably the cause was a neutron star merger, so events of this type offer information on how long it took for them to occur and their amount at that time.