Traces of planets devoured by their host stars can possibly be found within the external layers of the stellar surface. These remains tell a story of the evolution and architecture of different planetary systems and grant new appreciation for our relatively calm environment.
In our latest #UndergradResearch post, Meredith Vogel talks about how an exoplanet’s habitability can be affected by other planets’ orbits in multi-planet systems.
Today we’ve got an interview with the awesome Professor Smadar Naoz at @UCLA, #AAS237 plenary speaker and Helen B. Warner prize winner! Read on about her journey in astronomy and her awesome work about dynamics.
The GRAVITY team first detects the Schwarzschild precession of the orbit of the star S2 in the center of the Milky Way.
How do you tilt Uranus all the way on its side? A circumplanetary disk might do the trick.
How can we combine multiple telescopes to learn about exoplanets? Interferometry!