STS-135: The Last Shuttle Mission
The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land tomorrow. What has the crew of STS-135 done during the final shuttle mission?
Separating Quasars from Stars
What happens when redshifted quasars masquerade as stars? How do astronomers isolate them from the stellar population?
YETI: Abominable Snowman or Exoplanet Transit Survey?
Neuhäuser et al. are searching for young Jovian planets orbiting stars in open clusters. What are the advantages of looking for planets in clusters?
Searching for Pandora
Habitable exomoons appear all over science fiction, but could they exist in real life? Could we detect them if they did?
The Kepler Exoplanet Census
What does the Kepler data tell us about the number of planets per star and the distribution of planets in radius and orbital period? Andrew Youdin addresses that question by considering the selection effects in the Kepler sample and fitting a joint powerlaw in radius and orbital period.