A Very Long Distance Relationship
Researchers find a brown dwarf at the largest orbit yet discovered. Details on the star and it’s companion in today’s Astrobite.
Moon Zoo: Counting lunar craters with “citizen science”
Crowdsourcing provides a cheap and efficient way for astronomers to analyze features on the lunar surface.
Optimizing the search for pale blue dots
How can we find other pale blue dots? Today’s paper studies what could be the most time-effective way to search for Earth-like exoplanets, just by looking at their colors.
An Overview of the Extreme Solar Systems III Conference
The third Extreme Solar System conference was held between Nov 29 to Dec 4th, in Kona, Hawaii, on the 20th anniversary of the first exoplanet detection around a main sequence star. This astrobite gives a brief overview of the conference.
Sustainable Climates on Greenhouse Super-Earths?
Can life on exo-worlds build its own habitable environment in extremely unfavourable conditions?
Ripping Apart Asteroids to Account for Earth’s Strangeness
Earth’s composition seemingly does not fit into planet formation theory. Ripping apart its building blocks by collisions during accretion might sound violent, but can be a way to go.