by Huei Sears | Jan 30, 2020 | Daily Paper Summaries
ASAS-SN searches for supernova and finds variable stars too! They found so many (~90,000) that they decided to classify them all. How do you go about classifying 90,000 things? Machine learning, of course!
by Tarini Konchady | Sep 18, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries
What if we used stars other than Cepheids to measure distances?
by Emma Foxell | Mar 8, 2019 | Classics
Happy International Women’s Day. This astrobite investigates how astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s work changed our understanding of the size of the universe!
by Oliver Hall | Feb 15, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries
Today’s authors use a new technique to make new discoveries about the Seven Sisters.
by Avery Schiff | Oct 26, 2018 | Current Events, Daily Paper Summaries
Did Aboriginal Australians notice that Betelgeuse is a variable star? Today’s paper provides additional evidence that they did.
by Tarini Konchady | Sep 13, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries
What can the variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds tell us about how they evolve?