Interview Series: Ronald López
In today’s Beyond post, we interview Ronald López, an Afro-Latino astronomer interested in exoplanet instrumentation!
In today’s Beyond post, we interview Ronald López, an Afro-Latino astronomer interested in exoplanet instrumentation!
Signs of life on other worlds might be detectable with today’s instruments – but can JWST detect the signs of conditions where life could form? Today’s authors try to answer this question.
All planets with atmospheres experience atmospheric escape. But what makes this process so vital to understanding the exoplanet population?
Scientists are the Universe’s translators. Their responsibility is to ensure that anyone can access their translation. Today’s authors argue that astronomers have not been living up to this task. Despite being one of the oldest physical sciences, astronomy has remained stagnant in its reliance on visual communication.
Today’s authors discovered a very long, very odd galactic tail, and discuss what that means for its origin and for the history of the galax(ies) involved!
Will Betelgeuse go supernova in the next few decades? This paper suggests so…