Fish(er)ing for Planet Nine
If it’s out there, Planet Nine would pull on everything else in the solar system. Could we measure those tugs to uncover its hiding spot?
The Crowded Cosmos: Effects of Blended Galaxies on Cosmic Shear
In today’s paper, we learn how overlapping galaxies affect weak lensing measurements that the LSST will make.
Studying the Population of Variable Objects in the Dark Energy Survey
Today’s undergraduate research post is seeking to automatically identify variable stars in the upcoming all sky survey, LSST. Read on to find out more!
Another interstellar interloper
A few years ago, an asteroid visited our solar system…now, a comet from a different star is here!
Aliens Among Us*
*just to be clear, the aliens I am talking about are rocks and not alive nor intelligent. But there may be many of them!
Astronomical Observatories and Indigenous Communities in Chile
Continuing our series on the historical interaction between Western astronomy and Indigenous communities, this post discusses ALMA and other observatories in Chile.