Where to Look for Baby Planets
Baby planets still living in their natal disks don’t want astronomers to find and take pictures of them. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try!
A Blast from the Past: Forecasting Supernova Refsdal
In today’s astrobite, a group of astronomers experiences déjà vu while studying gravitational lensing.
Uncovering planets and stellar activity using only radial velocities
How do we model stellar activity to disentangle planet signals from stellar activity using only RVs?
Moon Zoo: Counting lunar craters with “citizen science”
Crowdsourcing provides a cheap and efficient way for astronomers to analyze features on the lunar surface.
Living the ‘Magellan’ life : Observing at a Chilean masterpiece
Unlike most astrophysicists today, this one did go observing for a change. And what he finds there is out of this world. Literally.
The Dwarf that Devours Planets
Astronomers may have finally observed the event that explains polluted white dwarfs and their debris disks.