Auroral Displays at Brown Dwarfs
Powerful auroras have been detected at a nearby brown dwarf. Today we’ll be discussing this discovery, which is the first instance of auroras found outside of the solar system.
Astrobites: A Look back at 2016!
A Happy New Year from everyone at Astrobites! Read on to find out about our fun events, collaborations and top-read articles in the last 12 months!
New World Weather
Astronomers discover weather on a new world for the first time.
A new discovery of a secondary eclipse
HAT-P-11b is a Neptune-size transiting exoplanet with water in its atmosphere. Here we discuss the first detection of its secondary eclipse.
Cloudy with a Chance of Wind
A new look at Saturn’s windy weather.
KELT-16b: a new benchmark for future exoplanet atmosphere studies
On KELT-16b you would melt. I would melt too. A look at an exciting and newly discovered Hot Jupiter, and why KELT-16b is a valuable addition to the group of boiling gas giant planets, and a fantastic target for future atmospheric studies.