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UR: Characterising the Risk to Earth of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, Leah Bigwood investigates whether three Near Earth Asteroids are likely to impact Earth in the next 100 years.
Unidentified Flaring Object
Identifying the source of the nuclear flare in SDSS J154843.06+220812.6
An explosive hug!
Today’s paper investigates a mysterious stellar explosion that resulted when a black hole or a neutron star crashed into a star.
UR: Novel Flux Measurements for Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME Telescope
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, read about Yuliya Shpunarska’s work on flux measurements of fast radio bursts using the CHIME telescope!
The Last Message of Devoured Planets
Traces of planets devoured by their host stars can possibly be found within the external layers of the stellar surface. These remains tell a story of the evolution and architecture of different planetary systems and grant new appreciation for our relatively calm environment.
Expanding the cosmology toolbox: studying gravity on all scales
Studying gravity on cosmological scales is HARD. Today’s papers build a framework to extend the standard cosmology toolbox, which means we can keep more of our data and learn more about gravity in the process.
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