Cold and Distant, Meet the Newest Brown Dwarf!
Citizen scientists have discovered a new brown dwarf! But what exactly makes Ross 19B so special?
Citizen scientists have discovered a new brown dwarf! But what exactly makes Ross 19B so special?
We report on Day 3 of the virtual winter AAS meeting.
We report on Day 2 of the virtual winter AAS meeting.
Since its discovery in 2016, we’ve had no idea what the aurora phenomenon called “STEVE” actually is. Using multiple ground- and space-based datasets, we finally have some idea (spoiler: it might not be a typical aurora after all!).
Brown dwarfs are objects below the mass limit to become a star. It’s been less than 20 years since we’ve detected the first one. Can citizen science help us increase our numbers?
Image credits: R. Hurt/NASA
Instead of sitting around and twiddling its thumbs when unused, your computer could be contributing to science! Today’s astrobite highlights the discovery of a rare system that was uncovered through the Einstein@Home project.