Wibbly wobbly melty welty: A new tool for processing Martian ice cores
Martian ice cores provide an exciting opportunity to learn about the Red Planet’s past. Today’s bite describes a device to make processing them easier.
Io 2: Searching for exomoons with a radio telescope
One challenge of exoplanet astronomy is finding moons orbiting distant worlds. Today’s paper tests out an unusual new method of finding these exomoons!
The bared minimum: Revealing a new phase of stellar activity in HD 166620
Four centuries ago, the Sun entered a long phase of low activity. Newly-presented data suggests that the star HD 166620 is now doing the same thing!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Today we interview astronomer Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell for her plenary talk at #AAS240!
Not all black holes that wander are lost – and now, some may have been found.
In today’s paper, astronomers look for meandering modern-day analogues of the ancient building blocks of supermassive black holes.
