Alex and Malena sit down for a gourmet meal and Will, with curved mustache and slicked hair, pours the wine. Alex enjoys his star cluster soup as he tells us about the state-of-the-art in star formation simulations. The gang then enjoys a space sound entremet (served chilled) before moving onto a main course of freshly seared planet. Malena explains how we might tell if a sun-like star has dined on a planet, and shockingly enough, we learn that these stars like to eat. Malena also tells us all about the kind of puns she’d like to make…but she doesn’t actually make them. 

Astrobites: 

https://astrobites.org/2022/01/17/recipe-for-star-cluster-soup/

https://astrobites.org/2021/09/28/yum-planets/

Space Sound: (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/Univ of Iowa) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_09R6jIo74U&ab_channel=JPLraw