Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Lars Bildsten
Professor Lars Bildsten understand the values of change — stellar change, that is. Read more about his research and career before his keynote at #AAS231!
Something bizarre is happening in stars
The light from a star is not constant, it varies as the layers of hot material move back and forth, clump and disperse. Most of these vibrations are visible, detectable, and well understood. But some bizarre new vibration is happening in stars, for which we have no clear path to an explanation.
Teaching Computers to Find Non-Transiting Hot Jupiters
Planets that do not transit are very difficult for Kepler to find. The authors of today’s paper are not intimidated by that and find 60 non-transiting Hot Jupiters unknowingly detected by Kepler anyway.
The WTF Star Strikes Again
Bizarre transits, century-long dimming, and now…brightening spells?
HAT-P-11: A Spotted Star
How an exoplanet’s transits reveal starspots on HAT-P-11.
What’s that coming over the disk?
Kepler has stared at the stars and hundreds of exoplanets have waved back. Despite this, we struggle to detect the minor bodies we’re familiar with in our own Solar system around other stars…until recently that is. Today’s bite explores Kepler’s evidence for its first ever exocomet!