February 2026 News

Artist’s impression of WR 112, a binary system containing a massive, evolved Wolf-Rayet star and an OB-type companion. As their stellar winds collide, dust forms and spirals outward, consisting mostly of extremely tiny, nanometer-sized grains along with a secondary population about 100 times larger. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M. Weiss.

A study in stardust: Massive binary stars emit tiny carbon particles
Thu, 02/26/2026
Yale junior Donglin Wu leads a new study showing that some of the biggest stars in the universe shed some of the smallest dust particles. It’s fitting that Yale junior...