NASA’s SOFIA mission, an infrared telescope aboard a Boeing 747SP that helped discover the universe’s oldest molecule and found water on the sunlit surface of the Moon, is preparing to fly for one last time tonight.
Today’s paper explores a promising method for detecting and constraining exoplanetary magnetic fields: measuring their effects on a host star’s radio emission during transits.
Guest author Neha Krishnakumar describes how the sun can have life-changing effects on one of the most unlikely parts of Earth: whales. The effects of solar storms are thought to increase the number of whale strandings that occur each year.
Polarity, reversing in the plasma sea
Ending coronal shines, choking off these field lines
But it’s just the price I pay, destiny is calling me
Fabienne Nail writes about how magnetic fields can make modelling atmospheric escape for TRAPPIST-1e and other exoplanets much more difficult.
Astrobites coverage of Day 1 of AAS 240!