Can gamma ray bursts be used as standard candles?
Some GRB-SNe pairs show interesting correlations across their light curves.
Piecing together the Hubble constant
Different methods of measuring the Hubble constant yield slightly different values, but they are still in reasonable agreement.
Testing the Titius-Bode law on exoplanets
From examining extrasolar planetary systems, we can test if the Titius-Bode “law” is actually a law.
Binary Hunting with Phase Variations
How do pulsating stars give away their secret identities as binary dance partners? In this paper, the authors demonstrate a new way to not only detect binaries we may have missed in the Kepler data, but also to measure their velocities without spectra.
Kepler Discovers a Self-Lensing Star System
Kepler finds the signature of a transiting white dwarf. Instead blocking the light of its companion star, the white dwarf magnifies it, creating a light curve that periodically brightens.
New detections of exoplanet HD 95086 b with the Gemini Planet Imager
HD 95086 b is one of the first exoplanets directly imaged with the newly commissioned instrument Gemini Planet Imager. This is only the first in what is likely to be a long line of exciting results coming from this state of the art instrument.