Anomaly Detection and Classification of Astronomical Objects in the Era of Machine Learning
Guest author Torsha Majumder takes us through some of the many applications for machine learning in astronomy.
Black hole fireworks: tidal disruption events light up SMBHs
Black holes are hungry, loud eaters! Find out what they sound like as they burp the remains of a star!
Novella of a Nova
Today’s paper details astronomers’ 150+ year vigil on T Coronae Borealis, a nova expected to erupt soon!
A Third Planet Orbits the 25th Nearest Star
One of the closest stars to our own Sun just got a third planet!
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.
Vulcan II: The Wrath of Stellar Activity
Of all the planets I have encountered in my travels, this one was… lousy stellar activity!