Today was day two of the First Science Results from JWST meeting at STScI. Once again, it was a blast of results from all different fields. Some things I'll think about more going forward include: Something like 3 percent of white dwarf stars show an infrared excess that is consistent with them having a Saturn-like ring system? How did I not know this previously? It makes me want to find a WD with a transiting exoplanet to map the rings and maybe even ring gaps! There is a huge class of red luminous outbursts that appear to be the result of mergers of binary stars (maybe often when one of the binary pair starts to go off the main sequence and engulf its partner). Some of these, for energetic and other reasons, look like they are created not by binary-star systems but instead by star–planet systems. I wonder if the populations can be connected to the population of stars with weird lithium and refractory abundances?
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