Set a course for GW Orionis. Maximum Warp. Engage!
Aside from their name, warped astrophysical disks have little in common with the warp drive. Nonetheless, come and enjoy a journey exploring them in today’s bite!
Carnivalgoing galaxies and a billion dollar guessing game
An astronomer and a galaxy walk into a carnival stand… check out today’s bite to see how this one ends!
UR: Simulating Interactions with Lunar Rocks
For today’s Undergrad Research submission, an undergraduate at U of Georgia is simulating collisions on the Moon’s surface to investigate how water could have been produced there.
A cosmic game of LEGO
In today’s paper, learn how astronomers can identify merging galaxies and investigate the importance of these collisions over cosmic time.
Uh oh, where did the atmosphere go: the impact of host stars’ radiation on exoplanet atmospheres
Today’s post tells you how planets can lose their atmospheres due to a star’s radiation – and what this means for exoplanets we have already found!
The Floor is Magma! (But that’s a good thing)
Do magma oceans help planets form and retain water oceans?