The New Beast in the Clouds
Today’s authors serendipitously discovered a new celestial beast lurking in the Magellanic Clouds—what could it be?
Spotting close-in giant planets with spectroscopy
Today’s authors have a way to find giant planets using spectroscopy!
Age is Just a Number: Radioactive Dating in Stars
Do you feel older? How does it show in your body? Stars carry their own clocks within them too. See how we can better measure their Uranium as it slowly ticks away.
UR: Matching Supernova Progenitors to their Fingerprints
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, Mckenzie Ferrari compares real optical supernova spectra to models to identify their progenitors.
Cracking the Code for Galaxy Spectra
Today’s authors present a new machine learning approach to modeling galaxy spectra!
A Moist Exoplanet in the Neptune Desert
Water vapor detection of exoplanet atmospheres has been a hot topic. This scientific question is included in the first set of results published by JWST. But it’s even more difficult to detect the presence of water vapor on exoplanets in the Neptune desert. This year, researchers detected water vapor on TOI-674 b for the first time by analyzing atmospheric transmission spectrum. It’s very exciting. This discovery provides an important target for subsequent detection with higher precision by JWST.