Polka-Dotted Stars: Searching for Spots on KOI-340
Today’s authors search for polka dots of concentrated magnetic flux on the surface of a subgiant star.
Finding young exoplanets with machine learning
Astronomers have a challenging task ahead of them — to find young exoplanets in protoplanetary disks. Machine Learning could potentially come to the rescue.
Defining Gravity: Can Wide Binaries be a Definitive Test of Modified Newtonian Gravity Theories?
Today’s paper posits that precise observations of wide binaries can be used, in conjunction with simulations, to test the validity of modified gravity theories!
The First Inference of A Magnetic Field Inside A Main Sequence Star
History has been made! The first magnetic field inside a main-sequence star has been measured!
Interview with Prof. Alicia Aarnio, Assistant Professor and AAS WGAD Founding Member
An interview with Professor Alicia Aarnio, founding member of AAS WGAD, talking about her stellar science, and the joy and rage of navigating science with a disability.
The bared minimum: Revealing a new phase of stellar activity in HD 166620
Four centuries ago, the Sun entered a long phase of low activity. Newly-presented data suggests that the star HD 166620 is now doing the same thing!