Earth as an exoplanet via the Moon
It sounds convoluted: today’s astrobite observed a lunar eclipse in order to learn about the Earth’s atmosphere, to understand more about how to observe exoplanets. How and why do they do this? Read on…
Will we find signs of tectonics on Pluto? And what would that mean?
New Horizons will arrive at Pluto in mid-2015. Images of ancient tectonic features on its surface may provide evidence for the existence of an ancient, subsurface ocean.
Albedos of Super Earths
This paper introduces a new method of searching for occultations in Kepler data to study the albedos of close in super-Earths.
Testing the Titius-Bode law on exoplanets
From examining extrasolar planetary systems, we can test if the Titius-Bode “law” is actually a law.
A New Moon from Saturn’s Ring
For the first time ever, signatures from a newly formed moon are spotted in Saturn’s ring system.
A Tale of Two Star Cities
How do we reproduce what happened previously in a galaxy-galaxy interaction when all we have is one snapshot in time?