Women’s History Month: Dr. Munazza Alam
In today’s post, we interviewed Dr. Munazza Alam, a post-doc at Carnegie EPL about her accomplishments & her journey in astronomy.
Growing a Galaxy
Today’s paper puts simulation-based theories to the test as we look at some of the most massive disk galaxies and find out how they grew to their enormous sizes!
Judging a Galaxy by its Cover
We’re always told not to judge a book by it’s cover, but what about galaxies? Today’s authors try to find out!
A new exomoon candidate: Kepler-1708 b-i
Today’s paper reports evidence for a new exomoon Kepler-1708 b-i, a mini-Neptune sized moon orbiting a Jupiter-like planet!
Planetary Nebulae: The Desolation of Binaries
What do binaries have to do with how your favorite nebula looks like?
From Earth Plants to Exo-plants: Spectropolarimetry as an Agnostic Biosignature
In order to find life elsewhere in the universe, we need to rule out false positive biosignatures. To get around this, today’s authors use polarized light to distinguish plants from rocks!