Moon Zoo: Counting lunar craters with “citizen science”
Crowdsourcing provides a cheap and efficient way for astronomers to analyze features on the lunar surface.
Looking at Celestial Hot DOGs in the Microwave
These hot galaxies show signs of AGN and starburst activity occurring within their dusty interiors.
Searching for white dwarf companions around millisecond pulsars
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope show that there are previously unknown white dwarfs orbiting around pulsar companions.
Estimating the number of intelligent civilizations from planet formation rates
By combining galaxy formation histories and planet formation models, we can estimate the number of potential civilizations in our Universe.
Flinging Asteroids into the Habitable Zone
Planets in binary star systems can receive a sizable amount of water from asteroids getting perturbed out of their orbits