Why open research practices are a clever move
An essay about open scholarly practices in science.
The Bullet Cluster – A Smoking Gun for Dark Matter!
A classic paper on dark matter is brought to ‘light’ in this bite, discussing a discovery that provides one of the best evidences we have for non-baryonic matter in the universe.
‘One Direction’ – Isotropic Universe or not?
Isotropy, and by extension the Cosmological Principle, is tested to its limits, by a new modeling study of CMB fluctuations from PLANCK. Are groundbreaking results seen?
Something from Nothing
What can we learn from the lack of giant planets found at wide separations?
Guide to Empirical Velocity Laws
There are some papers that present relations that are important enough to get their own names. This astrobite presents three relations that have a remarkable similar shape, namely the Faber-Jackson, Tully-Fisher and M-sigma relations.
The gruntwork behind Kepler’s new batch of exoplanets
The first Kepler mission observed hundreds of thousands of stars, and approximately 7500 of them are of potential interest. In this astrobite, we learn how astronomers are sifting through all these data in search for exoplanets.