Dust Accretion & Double Suns
Exoplanets have been the proverbial apples of astronomers’ eyes for some time now. But what about planets that orbit not one star, but two? Read today’s astrobite to learn more about where and how such planets form!
Cloudy with a chance of wind
How does gravity tell us about the winds in a planet’s atmosphere? Read on to find out!
Why are Jupiter and Saturn Spinning so Slowly??
Our gas giants spin slower than one might expect. Turns out gas giants outside of our solar system are also slower than originally what we might have thought! Today’s astrobite answers the question: What’s up with dat?
The Imprint of an Invisible Giant
Most Jupiter-like exoplanets go undetected. But do they leave a mark on the more easily detectable inner terrestrial worlds?
Moonetesimals likely form relatively quickly
The absence of dusty circumplanetary disks around young giant planets suggests moonetesimals grow relatively quickly.
Adventure to an Asteroid: JAXA’s Hayabusa2 visits Ryugu
Earlier this year, JAXA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid — one that can hopefully tell us about the solar system’s past, and how life on Earth came to be.