The Astrobites Climate Change Series: A Way to Connect Physics And Climate Change
Maybe physics in high school should not be abstract? Maybe we should discuss climate change in schools?
When good galaxies go bad: a new mechanism for galaxy death
Why are so many modern galaxies not actively forming stars? Today’s guest post by Katherine Lee explores one mechanism that may quench star formation in Milky Way-like galaxies.
Pulsars: The key to secure encryption
Pulsars have many applications, from testing general relativity to searching for gravitational waves. Today’s paper explores an unusual one: cryptography!
Gotcha! Finding Isolated Stellar Mass Black Holes
Finding isolated black holes is really tricky, since they are basically invisible. But today’s authors have managed to find one anyways, by using the great multi-tool of gravitational microlensing!
A new exomoon candidate: Kepler-1708 b-i
Today’s paper reports evidence for a new exomoon Kepler-1708 b-i, a mini-Neptune sized moon orbiting a Jupiter-like planet!