Hydration is Key: Clues about Venus’ early habitability from its present-day atmosphere?
Could Venus ever have boasted an ocean? What can models of atmosphere and interior evolution tell us about the history of water on our sister planet?
Ironing out Infinities with the Conformal Diagram
In today’s classic paper – Nobel laureate Roger Penrose fits the whole universe on a page!
Weak on the Outside, Powerful on the Inside
Riddle of the day: What is something young and old, weak and powerful?
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Reinhard Genzel
This week we’re celebrating this year’s astronomical awardees for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Today we have Reinhard Genzel and his pioneering work on constraining the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Andrea Ghez
This week we’re celebrating this year’s astronomical awardees for the Nobel Prize in Physics. First up, Prof. Andrea Ghez and the mysteries of the Galactic Center!
What we still don’t know about accretion disks
Today’s dual-language post takes a look at a classic paper of Shakura & Sunyaev written in 1973. Whilst this paper advanced our understanding of accretion disks, we still have an incomplete theoretical picture. That may all change