Can Magnetic Fields Help Planetesimals Form?
The inner regions of protoplanetary disks have strong magnetic fields. What effect does the presence of a magnetic field have on planet formation?
You might think that we’d already discovered all the large clusters of stars orbiting our galaxy. Surprisingly, there are still detections to be made — though we’re not always sure what we’re looking at.
Astrobites reports on work preparing for Lucy, a new mission that will fly by multiple asteroids near Jupiter in the late 2020s.
Gaia measurements of thousands of stars are helping us to pin down the motions (and future collisions!) of the galaxies around us.
In the era of big data, we often rely on computers to do sorting, searching, and analyzing. Sometimes, however, there’s just no substitute for the human eye and brain.
You might think that a passing star getting ripped apart by a supermassive black hole sounds like more than enough drama. But let’s take this a step further…
Astrobites reports on why two (stars) aren’t always better than one — especially when you’re trying to track down dark matter in tiny galaxies.
In today’s world of astronomy research, software is centrally integrated into nearly everything we do. Isn’t it time we develop a consistent system for citing and preserving it?
Here are some recent discoveries by NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, which launched last year.