Finding the Brightest Exoplanet Hosts with MASCARA
An instrument designed to look for exoplanets around the brightest stars in the sky; what have they found so far?
Telescopes Don’t Make Catalogs
A probabilistic approach to making better astronomical source catalogs.
KELT: The Extremely Little Telescope
In the era of extremely large telescopes, let’s take look at the opposite end: the extremely little telescopes. KELT, or the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope, is one of them.
Bright, Bright Things Far, Far Away
Preliminary results from a new survey looking for ultra-bright galaxies in the early universe.
The ‘Ultimate’ X-ray Sky Survey: Finding Active Galaxies in Superclusters
The XXL Survey is here as the rightful successor to the XMM-Newton survey that gave us a unique and extravagant look into the high-energy universe. Here, we look at some of the observations that the XXL has to offer!
Galactic Interlopers
We’re attempting to map the universe in fine detail at its largest scales in 3D. Meet the astrophysical rouges that seek to upend our goal, and the tools we need to weed them out.