Astrophysical Weather: Finding the Clouds on nearby Brown Dwarfs
How do you measure the clouds in a brown dwarf atmosphere when the entire brown dwarf is a single, unresolved dot on your image! Read on to find out…
Diaries of a Dwarf Planet: What are Those Spots on Ceres?
The first asteroid ever discovered is serving up scientists a new set of firsts. The shiny patches that bespeckle its surface suggest there’s more to Ceres than meets the eye.
Mapping Gravity in Stellar Nurseries
Gravity turns gas into stars. Today’s astrobite introduces a new way to study gravity’s pull in a molecular cloud – the birthplace of new stars.
The Formation of Wide Binaries
Most stars—including Polaris, Sirius, and those in Orion’s Belt—actually hide multiple stars. Some of these stars are on orbits so wide that they may no longer be gravitationally bound. Why?
Conflicts between Expansion History of the Local and Distant Universe
New supernovae measurements and precise distance calculations lead to an interesting conflict in cosmological parameters in the universe, depending on whether a tool is used to probe the local or the distant universe. Read on to find out how!
Grand Fireworks from the Local Super-Bubble
A cosmic orchestra of nearby supernova explosions created the ‘Local Bubble’ all around us. Could these stellar super-bombs have influenced Earth’s climate and even human evolution?