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ISM through the [CII] looking “glass”
This bite explores a novel framework for simulating the 158 micron [CII] emission from galaxies in EAGLE simulations.
Grab your umbrellas, ’cause it’s raining grazing planets!
Today’s author gets out their umbrella to model planets that graze their stellar hosts.
Transient Butterflies: Fast Blue Optical Transients can be powered by Jet-Shocked Cocoons
FBOTs or butterflies? Today’s paper presents a new model to describe the emission from fast blue optical transients.
Atmospheres of Small Planets Through a Big Telescope
Astronomers around the world are excited about the launch of a new telescope! In today’s bite, read about what that might bring for detections of biosignatures in the atmospheres of exoplanets.
Hydrate or Die-drate: Was Venus Ever Habitable?
Could Venus have ever boasted the expansive oceans we find on Earth today? Find out by reading today’s bite about planetary scientists that modeled Venus’s atmosphere!
Water on Mars? Hold up.
Anomalous radar reflections, thought to be evidence of liquid water under the ice on Mars, may instead be explained by multiple layers of even more ice.