Imagine going from having data on 250 white dwarfs to almost 14,000 overnight… Thanks to the latest Gaia data release, this dream became reality, allowing astronomers to look for patterns in the local white dwarf population for the very first time.
We thought we knew how quickly the white dwarf pulsar in AR Scorpii was spinning down, but a new study tells us we can’t know for sure.
Last year’s discovery of CR7, an intriguing galaxy in the early universe, encouraged many exotic explanations. New observations somewhat spoil the party
Have we caught a glimpse of some of the earliest black holes in the universe, and what does it mean for our understanding of the early universe?
In the era of extremely large telescopes, let’s take look at the opposite end: the extremely little telescopes. KELT, or the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope, is one of them.
So you went observing, and you got a time series of images for precise photometry and you want to plot a light curve. Now what? Where do you start? Right here, with AstroImageJ.