The Case of the Evaporating Exoplanet
Today’s authors investigate a young star hosting an exoplanet, and watch as its X-ray flares speed up the planet’s evaporation!
Io 2: Searching for exomoons with a radio telescope
One challenge of exoplanet astronomy is finding moons orbiting distant worlds. Today’s paper tests out an unusual new method of finding these exomoons!
A story about a haunted protoplanetary disk…
Happy spooky season, folks! This is a story about a haunted protoplanetary disk…
Moonspotting: An Indirect Channel to Observe Rocky Planet Moons
Observing exoplanets is hard and observing exomoons is even harder. Today’s author proposes a new channel through which we might be able to see these moons!
Planets around Not-Quite-Planets
Today’s authors report the detection of a planet candidate around a brown dwarf!
The Great Planet Bake Off
In today’s episode, the star’s have been preparing some planets. But have they all been using the same recipe to form them? We will have to “taste” their compositions to find our winner!