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Our Icy Planetary Relatives: Special Slushies?

Our Icy Planetary Relatives: Special Slushies?

by Guest | Sep 9, 2022 | Course Assignments, Daily Paper Summaries

The author’s of today’s paper found that planets are made of unappetizing slushies!

Another one bites the dust: What dust devils tell us about Mars

Another one bites the dust: What dust devils tell us about Mars

by Guest | Sep 7, 2022 | Course Assignments, Daily Paper Summaries

Dust devils, also known as dusty vortices, are key to understanding Mars’ climate since they loft dust into the atmosphere, shaping the Martian environment. Today’s author discusses some dust devil data gathered by the Mars Environmental Dynamic Analyzer on the Perseverance rover.

Life Can Travel Through Space! But Only Under Certain Conditions…

Life Can Travel Through Space! But Only Under Certain Conditions…

by Guest | Aug 9, 2022 | Course Assignments, Daily Paper Summaries

Scientists have found a new condition in which life can travel through space! Read more…

Finding young exoplanets with machine learning

Finding young exoplanets with machine learning

by Guest | Jul 30, 2022 | Course Assignments, Daily Paper Summaries

Astronomers have a challenging task ahead of them — to find young exoplanets in protoplanetary disks. Machine Learning could potentially come to the rescue.

Solar Storms? Oh Whale, That’s a Problem!

Solar Storms? Oh Whale, That’s a Problem!

by Guest | Jul 29, 2022 | Course Assignments, Daily Paper Summaries

Guest author Neha Krishnakumar describes how the sun can have life-changing effects on one of the most unlikely parts of Earth: whales. The effects of solar storms are thought to increase the number of whale strandings that occur each year.

Writing Astrobites in Your Courses!

Writing Astrobites in Your Courses!

by Michael Hammer | Jun 3, 2022 | Course Assignments, Teaching

Over the last few years, we have been publishing Astrobites that students wrote for their courses. This is how those bites came to be!

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