by Caroline Morley | Jul 14, 2011 | Daily Paper Summaries
Astronomers who specialize in galaxies and galaxy evolution have started to weigh in on habitability from a completely new perspective. Instead of trying to determine the zone around a star where an orbiting planet could sustain life, they are modeling the zones within the galaxy where planets that harbor complex life would be most likely to form. They dub this zone the Galactic Habitable Zone, or GHZ.
by Katherine Rosenfeld | Apr 29, 2011 | Daily Paper Summaries
Take a look at three different papers written by graduate students on distant galaxies, waves on the Sun, and mapping the Milky Way.
by Elisabeth Newton | Feb 13, 2011 | Daily Paper Summaries
In this paper, Dobbs, Burkert & Pringle suggest that most molecular clouds are not gravitationally bound, as is often assumed. They present simulations in which stellar feedback and collisions between clouds play a prominent role.
