Ice, Ice, Baby!
How common are icy polar caps like ours on Earth-like exoplanets? Today’s paper explores the many versions of surface ice possible on Earth-like exoplanets, even including equatorial ice belts!
Active Galactic Nuclei have a history of causing trouble
Many astronomers believe that AGN activity is responsible for suppressing star formation. However, it appears that maybe the past behaviour of AGN is what’s really to blame.
A New Recipe for Neutron Star Magnetic Fields
How do neutron stars acquire such strong magnetic fields? Why do these fields differ between pulsars and magnetars? Today’s paper suggests that *convective dynamos* may be at play.
Perpendicular planets are less peculiar than you’d think
Simulations of planet formation around binary stars compare coplanar vs perpendicular orbits.
Adversarial Networks, Collaborative Cosmology
Can fake data help to make real computational gains? In today’s paper, the authors describe using machine learning to boost the resolution of cosmological simulations.
Real (cosmological) information from simulated maps
Today’s paper proposes a machine learning method to recover fundamental cosmological parameters directly from sky maps. Will gastrophysics get in the way?