by Abbé Whitford | Mar 11, 2025 | Beyond, Climate Change
This post summarizes the second half of Chapter 7 of the book ‘Climate Change for Astronomers’, involving a discussion of energy sources available to us in the present, and the future, in order to understand the way forward for solutions to climate change. It also discusses how various solutions can be combined, how energy usage can be made more efficient, and how we can move towards creating a smarter and greener energy infrastructure.
by Abbé Whitford | Feb 14, 2025 | Daily Paper Summaries, PRJ
In today’s bite, we look at a novel way of searching for dark matter using the background of images of galaxies in infrared wavelengths.
by Abbé Whitford | Dec 5, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
Today’s bite will look at how astronomers have recently made observations to search for large-scale structure hidden by the Milky Way’s Zone of Avoidance.
by Abbé Whitford | Dec 4, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
Today’s bite will discuss how we can combine the fluctuations in the temperature of the oldest photons in the Universe with the presence of galaxies in the sky to measure motions.
by Abbé Whitford | Nov 4, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
In today’s bite, we look at a new approach to modelling the expansion rate of the Universe, in a way that takes into account how growing structures like voids or haloes in the Universe impact this.
