Astromania: The Astronomy Card Game
Introducing the new game ‘made by astronomers, for everyone’!
Vulcan II: The Wrath of Stellar Activity
Of all the planets I have encountered in my travels, this one was… lousy stellar activity!
Catching a gamma-ray flare with the Event Horizon Telescope & friends
We have a new EHT image of a supermassive black hole, but that’s not all! Today’s paper gives us a multiwavelength view of M87 during a gamma-ray flare.
To Inspiral or Not to Inspiral
Close-in planets are expected to have shrinking orbits. Catching a planet decay on its way to the warm embrace of its star is however impressively difficult.
UR: Unraveling astroecology: when astrobiology meets ecology
As part of our Undergraduate Research series, Juliana Meurer discusses her research combining astronomy, biology, and ecology!
Simulations of Turbulence in Black Hole Coronae
In today’s bite, the authors use simulations to explore turbulence a possible mechanism for the observed x-ray emissions in the coronae of black holes.