Guest: A Pricey Path to Habitable Planets: Expanding the VLTI to Directly Probe Exoplanets
Today’s authors propose upgrades to the VLTI that will allow us to search for signs of life on distant worlds.
How to Hide a Black Hole in a Hot Dog
Hot DOGs in space are more exciting than they sound. Let’s dissect the brightest one to learn how they hide black holes and some of the most extreme conditions in the universe.
“Undressing” a Naked Quasar: HE0450-2958
Today’s guest post presents an investigation of HE0450-2958—a quasar with a “missing” host galaxy.
The looming Drama for the Paranal Observatory
One of the very best spots to look at the night sky can be found in Chile; more specifically, in Paranal! The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has built some of the worlds prominent telescopes there. However, the future of this unique night sky might be in trouble..
Is the sigma-8 tension being sheared away? Cosmology with weak lensing from KiDS
Today’s bite looks at the final data release from the Kilo-Degree Survey, reporting a measurement of the clumpiness of the Universe as measured by weak gravitational lensing.
Whizzing and Whirling Stars in the Tarantula’s Web
Some stars are speedier than their siblings: read on to learn about the different populations of runaway stars in the Tarantula Nebula!