JWST’s First Direct Spectrum of a Planetary-Mass Object
The second major result from JWST’s Direct Imaging ERS Team – a stunning brown dwarf spectrum!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. Rebekah Dawson
We sit down with Professor Rebekah Dawson, Helen B. Warner Prize winner and plenary speaker at #AAS240 to hear about Hot Jupiters, the unexpected in astrophysics, and the best advice she got in graduate school!
Highway to the Venus Zone
How much carbon dioxide is too much? Is the habitable zone always habitable? To answer these questions, today’s authors turn up the heat and shove it into overdrive on the highway to the Venus zone!
The Case of the Missing Black Hole
A rare triple system consisting of two stars and a black hole was thought to be in our cosmic backyard. Can new observations from the ESO make the black hole vanish into thin air?
From Earth Plants to Exo-plants: Spectropolarimetry as an Agnostic Biosignature
In order to find life elsewhere in the universe, we need to rule out false positive biosignatures. To get around this, today’s authors use polarized light to distinguish plants from rocks!