Our Cosmology and The Big Picture: An Interview with Sean Carroll
Astrobites interviews Sean Carroll, one of the leading theoretical cosmologists of our time, about our universe, his new book and everything in between.
The SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Conference (#SPIEAstro) in Edinburgh
A glimpse of the #SPIEastro conference in Edinburgh
Guide to Empirical Velocity Laws
There are some papers that present relations that are important enough to get their own names. This astrobite presents three relations that have a remarkable similar shape, namely the Faber-Jackson, Tully-Fisher and M-sigma relations.
New rings detected for old protoplanetary disk
The image of the protoplanetary disk around HL Tau illustrating ring structures triggered a huge “WOW!”. Read on and get convinced by recent observations of TW Hya that ring structures seem to be rule rather than the exception.
KELT: The Extremely Little Telescope
In the era of extremely large telescopes, let’s take look at the opposite end: the extremely little telescopes. KELT, or the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope, is one of them.
Massive circumstellar disks accrete faster than low-mass ones
Do predictions from classical disk theory work with state-of-the-art measurements?