Honey, I shrunk the orbit!
Today’s post describes the discovery of Kepler’s first planet candidate spiraling into its star!
Dancing with the (Six) Stars, or, a 200 year story of the Castor system
Astronomers study the orbits of a sextuplet system, an absurdly complex arrangement of six stars in orbit around one another, in order to measure their masses once and for all.
Learning more about exoplanet orbits using orbitize!
Want to learn how astronomers discover and understand exoplanet orbits? Today’s post will teach how to use the open source code called orbitize! in Python!
Fly-bye, Baby: a review of the impact of stellar flybys on protoplanetary disks
Protoplanetary disks don’t exist in isolation; when young stars pass each other by, their gravitational encounter can disrupt, or maybe even kickstart, planet formation.
Women’s History Month: Dr. Ekta Patel
In today’s post, we interview Dr. Ekta Patel, a Miller postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, about her astronomy journey.
Tick, tick, plume! Explaining eruptions on Neptune’s largest moon
Voyager 2 observed unusual dark plumes on the icy moon Triton. Read on to learn what may cause this mysterious process.