by Mia de los Reyes | Jun 6, 2018 | Career Navigation, Current Events
Some galaxies live peaceful lives, calmly making stars at a sedate pace, with supermassive black holes that don’t vomit jets of material. Other galaxies… not so much. Come to Professor Julie Comerford’s upcoming #AAS232 talk to learn more about the weird and wonderful world of active galactic nuclei!
by Matthew Green | May 7, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries
LISA is a space-based mission to detect gravitational waves. What will be the brightest targets it can see?
by Peter Sinclair | Apr 9, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries
While a planet is forming, its passage through the protoplanetary disk can prevent pebbles from migrating inwards and accreting onto the planet.
by Mia de los Reyes | Mar 6, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries
“No [galaxy] is an island entire of itself; every [galaxy] / is a piece of the [cosmic web], a part of the main” – apologies to John Donne for butchering his poem.
by Matthew Green | Dec 21, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
A white dwarf binary system that sometimes shows evidence of a magnetic field — but only some of the time.
by Michael Hammer | Nov 15, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
Turbulence plays a key role in determining what types of planets can form in a disk. We are finally on the verge of measuring this property for the first time using CO spectral lines, but it will only work if we factor in how quickly CO can be depleted.