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What do astronomers and archaeologists have in common? Today’s guest author discusses how faint exoplanet signals are extracted from their noisy surroundings.
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For today’s bite guest author, Savaria Parrish, explores the prospects for habitability on planets around a class of stellar remnants known as white dwarfs!
Today we interview UCLA planetary scientist David Jewitt, who helped discover the Kuiper Belt and is now studying some of the Solar System’s strangest visitors!
There’s a hard physical limit on spotting a planet next to its blinding star. However, it turns out today’s telescopes aren’t hitting it. New work maps out exactly how close in we could still detect the faint, Earth-like worlds we want to find the most.
If our familiar red neighbor were a stranger light-years away, would we even know what we were looking at?
Much is still unknown about how Saturn’s rings came to be, but today’s authors shed some light on the structure by looking right into the darkness…