And I’m Free, Free-Floatin’… or am I?
TESS was designed to find transiting planets. Today’s authors use TESS to search for free-floating planets via gravitational lensing and find a candidate event.
How to tell if a Black Hole is making your fairy lights twinkle
Are your fairy lights being warped by a black hole this holiday season? Find out in today’s post!
A Predicted Alignment of the Stars
Today’s paper leverages a predicted astrometric microlensing event to study an isolated white dwarf and test stellar evolution theories.
The Peculiar Nature of Black Hole Birth Kicks
General relativity to the rescue! Today’s paper teaches us how microlensing data can be used to infer black hole natal kick velocities.
Herald of the Change: A microlensing Jupiter-analogue spotted in K2 data portends Roman’s yield of new planets
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…
What will happen to Jupiter when the Sun dies?
The Sun will become a white dwarf. Will any Solar System planets survive?