[NEWS] Five space science links: red dwarfs, zombie stars, LMC, M94, dark matter

[rfmcdonald]

• Evan Gough at Universe Today, looking at a study of nearby young red dwarf AU Microscopii, points to findings suggesting that red dwarfs quickly lose volatiles like water in their protoplanetary disks, leaving their worlds sterile.


• Paul Sutter at Universe Today looks at zombie stars, white dwarfs which underwent Type 1a supernovas which did not totally destroy them.


• The SCMP notes a new study suggesting that the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, will collide with our galaxy in a mere 2.5 billion years.


• IFLScience notes that nearby spiral galaxy M94 is unusually lacking in satellites, leaving interesting hints about the nature of dark matter and its distribution.


• New models of dwarf galaxy formation suggest dark matter can be heated, driven away from a galaxy's core by--for instance--active star formation. Scitech Daily reports.