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Herald of the Change: A microlensing Jupiter-analogue spotted in K2 data portends Roman’s yield of new planets

Herald of the Change: A microlensing Jupiter-analogue spotted in K2 data portends Roman’s yield of new planets

by William Balmer | Apr 11, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

Astronomers have just found Jupiter’s twin in a distant solar system. Their discovery technique may surprise you, and might just be the most important method for discovering Earth-like exoplanets in the next decade…

Twinkle, twinkle, highest redshift star; how we wonder what you are!

Twinkle, twinkle, highest redshift star; how we wonder what you are!

by Pratik Gandhi | Apr 7, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

What do mythology, Tolkien, and astrophysics have in common?

Gotcha! Finding Isolated Stellar Mass Black Holes

Gotcha! Finding Isolated Stellar Mass Black Holes

by Jana Steuer | Mar 2, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

Finding isolated black holes is really tricky, since they are basically invisible. But today’s authors have managed to find one anyways, by using the great multi-tool of gravitational microlensing!

I’m Not Late, You’re Just Early: measuring the Hubble constant using time-delay cosmography

I’m Not Late, You’re Just Early: measuring the Hubble constant using time-delay cosmography

by Abby Lee | Feb 8, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

How can we use gravitational lensing to measure the expansion rate of the Universe?

A-void-ing the CMB cold spot

A-void-ing the CMB cold spot

by Laila Linke | Dec 21, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries

The cold spot is a strange feature in the CMB that has puzzled astronomers for years. Today’s authors use gravitational lensing to find at least a partial cause: A giant supervoid extending 1.8 billion light years!

A Requiem for Dead Galaxies

A Requiem for Dead Galaxies

by Olivia Cooper | Sep 30, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries

Traces of magnified dust offer a requiem to early, dead galaxies that ran out of gas

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