If we want to know about the conditions for life on an Earth-like exoplanet, can’t we just take a picture of it? One where we can see continents, clouds and potential biospheres?
The short answer is we can’t. The long answer as to why not is found in today’s bite.
Exocomets are becoming more interesting, given their detections are more promising and well studied. So, naming them is of more importance now than ever. Today’s bite summarizes a paper that proposes a nomenclature for exocomets.
Today we interview Dr. Andrew Vanderburg, who is a professor at Harvard University and one of this year’s #AAS247 Plenary speakers!
Just when you think exoplanet demographics can’t get any weirder, this thing shows up. A hot Jupiter with a thing for carbon that may have been a star but now lives with a dead one. Confused? Read today’s bite.
Are the low-density planets that keep popping up in our growing collection of exoplanets really the wet worlds that we imagine them to be? Join us today as we take a closer look at why they may actually be more similar to comets than anything else.
Turns out there’s more than one way to “plate” a planet!