Life, the Universe and Everything Explained
Why resort to complicated theories that involve mysterious, unknown forces and states of matter? The geocentric model of the Universe nicely explains 1st century C.E. data.
Cloudy with a chance of Carbon Monoxide
Tune in now for the first extrasolar weather map of a nearby brown dwarf, made using Doppler imaging.
Unifying Planetary Atmospheres
A new model explains the common 0.1 bar temperature minimum in certain types of planetary atmospheres.
Astrophysical Classics: The Observed Relation between Star Formation and Gas in Galaxies
In today’s “astrophysical classic”, we delve into the seminal paper behind the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation, the empirical correlation between the star formation rate and gas density.
Dark in the Lightness
New results from stacked weak lensing measurements of over a hundred thousand galaxies show that, on large scales, light from stars appears to trace the dark matter distribution of the Universe remarkably well.
