Planetary Hide and Seek
Are there planets inside the gaps of multi-planetary systems hiding from us?
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Professor Dimitri Mawet
Today we interview Professor Dimitri Mawet, the David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a plenary speaker at #AAS246
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Meredith Hughes
Today, we interview Dr Meredith Hughes, associate professor of astronomy at Wesleyan University
Siblings vs Only Planets: Traits and Dynamics of M dwarf Families
We always say we’re made of stardust, but are we actually made out of our star’s dust? Today’s paper discusses the link between stellar composition, and their host planet composition, in order to answer that question.
What’s going on inside GJ 486b?
Today’s bite dives deeper into a warm, rocky exoplanet and reveals what might be hidden behind it’s atmosphere.
Cosmic Copycat – The First Detection of Water Ice in an Exo-Kuiper Belt
JWST has found the first evidence of water ice in a Kuiper Belt around another star – and the water ice in this one bears a striking resemblance to that in our own Solar System’s Kuiper Belt.