Kepler Team Announces Planet in a Binary Star System
Kepler has discovered a real-life version of Tatooine! The newly minted planet, dubbed Kepler-16b, orbits both stars on a 229 day orbit and is roughly the same size as Saturn.
Kepler-19b and its mysterious companion
I’m here at the Extreme Solar Systems 2 conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. On Monday, Sarah Ballard spoke about recent results on the Kepler-19 system; she led a paper on this object that was posted to the arxiv last week. This is the story of the newly-discovered transiting planet Kepler-19b and its mysterious companion.
A Star That Should Not Exist
Astronomers have discovered an extremely metal-poor, low mass star located in the Galactic Halo. SDSS J102915+172927 appears to have fewer metals than ever predicted for stars of this mass since many models of star formation suggest that a star with these properties should not have even formed in the early universe.
Applying for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
If you’re an undergraduate in your senior year intending to go to graduate school in science or just finishing up your first year (and are a US citizen, national or permanent resident), you SHOULD apply for the NSF GRFP. Read on to learn why and how. Now is a great time to start thinking about your application!
Photographers, get ready for the 2017 solar eclipse!
The 2017 solar eclipse will provide a unique opportunity to launch some exciting citizen science. This white paper describes how!