Students on the Hunt for Black Holes
Today, we hear from Ana Torres Campos about her experiences observing black holes for the Even Horizon Telescope. This is a crosspost from our sister site astrobitos.
New twinkles in the sky
Pulsations are the way for astronomers to probe the interior of stars. Today’s paper announces the discovery of a new class of pulsator stars. What makes them different? And what exciting new things can we learn from that?
Image credits: Paweł Pietrukowicz
Cosmology Results from The Dark Energy Survey!
Today’s paper constrains cosmological parameters from one of the largest ground-based astrophysical surveys ever undertaken – DES. An insight into their first-year’s data analysis, released in August 2017.
Somewhere in the Stratosphere
If you thought the weather on Earth was wild, think again: today we’re discussing the climate of WASP-121b.
How well do we measure the radii of white dwarfs?
The accuracy of our estimates of the radii of white dwarf stars has important implications to cosmology. We currently rely on a theoretical mass-radius relationship for that. Are we doing a good job?
Image credits: RJHall/Wikimedia Commons.
What’s your Cosmology? Ask CMB Maps.
Today’s paper takes you back to the time when anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background first shaped Observational Cosmology into the field it is today.