Understanding the origin of stars that shouldn’t exist
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Saurav Ruparelia studied stellar light curves to find extremely low-mass stellar remnants.
James Webb Telescope Calibrations May Resolve Cosmological Questions
Guest author Riley Sharpe discusses new methods for looking at high redshift galaxies detected with JWST!
UR: Rethinking our transiting exoplanet detection approaches: A method for optimizing small transiting planet detection.
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Yash Gondhalekar optimized periodogram searches to more effectively find small transiting planets!
Galactic Jets in Motion: Unveiling the Dance of Cosmic Ghosts
Plasma jets, emerging from a galaxy’s central black hole, sometimes bend in the same direction, forming head-tail structures. A recent study investigated two such galaxies found in unexpectedly close proximity, resembling a peculiar ‘dancing ghost’-like structure in the sky.
UR: Exploring Galaxies from the Epoch of Reionization – The Effect of Neutral Hydrogen on Reionizing Photons
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Lauren Elicker studied light from some of the most distant observable galaxies to better understand how our universe was reionized!