#BlackInAstro: A Glimpse Into African Cultural Astronomy
Humans have been looking up for our entire history – today, let’s take a look at the women of indigenous African communities and their relationship to the night sky!
Rocks Go Wild: How to Make a Solar System
How do you form Mercury, Venus, Earth AND Mars? The answer may surprise you! (or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Astrobites at AAS 231: Day 3
We report on Day 3 of the winter AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD. Highlights include an overview of the latest results from space telescopes, a look at our sister planet Venus, and discussion of data science’s role in astronomy.
First detection of an equatorial jet on Venus
Slowly-rotating Venus has some seriously speedy clouds. Using near-infrared images from Japan’s first Venus orbiter, Horinouchi and collaborators study the atmospheric dynamics of our strange sister planet.
Using observations from home to improve the transit method
Most exoplanets are and have been detected by the transit method. Maybe, we can improve the method even further by drawing conclusions from the recent Venus transits in 2004 and 2012.
Is Earth on the brink of a runaway greenhouse?
This paper considers the possibility that Earth could suffer a runaway or moist greenhouse effect, which probably turned Venus into a hellish wasteland long ago.