A Star, By Any Other Name (Show #42)

Title: A Star, By Any Other Name
Written By: Aaron
Disembodied Voices: Pamela & Travis
Engineered: Travis
Castdate: 060207
Rating: FF

• Transcript
• Press release
• Paper via ArXiv
• Article from Yahoo/Space.com
• OBAFGKM Mneumatic Fun
• Stellar Classification
• Stars so lonely they were tossed out of our galaxy - HubbleSite

This show describes a pretty fundamental change in our knowledge of the galaxy. But is it real, or just a question of classification?

PR caption: This artist’s conception shows a rocky planet orbiting around a red dwarf star. Such planets may be more common than astronomers realized, since single red dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the galactic disk. Credit: ESO