UR: Searching for Outer Companions to Hot Jupiters
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Tim Crowe used Lightkurve to look for hot Jupiter companions in TESS data!
The Floor is Lava! But an Atmosphere Persists…
The authors of today’s paper find evidence of an atmosphere on 55 Cancri e, a lava-filled super earth in a very impressive solar system.
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Thomas Beatty
Today we interview Dr. Thomas Beatty, professor from the University of Wisconsin and one of this year’s #AAS244 Keynote speaker!
A Third Planet Orbits the 25th Nearest Star
One of the closest stars to our own Sun just got a third planet!
And I’m Free, Free-Floatin’… or am I?
TESS was designed to find transiting planets. Today’s authors use TESS to search for free-floating planets via gravitational lensing and find a candidate event.
Vulcan II: The Wrath of Stellar Activity
Of all the planets I have encountered in my travels, this one was… lousy stellar activity!