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DPS–EPSC 2023: Day 4

Day 4 of the meeting brought an overview of Hubble observations of the giant planets and a debate about the presence of liquid water beneath Mars’s south polar deposits.

JWST image of Jupiter
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DPS–EPSC 2023: Day 3

On day 3, presenters tackled machine-learning challenges, icy planets and moons were scrutinized, and solar system images from JWST stole the show.

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DPS–EPSC 2023: Day 2

Plenary lectures on the second day of the joint AAS Division for Planetary Sciences and Europlanet Science Congress meeting brought insights into small solar system bodies, an asteroid redirection test, and the connection between comets and meteor showers.

illustration of an asteroid
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DPS–EPSC 2023: Day 1

We’re tuning in to this year’s joint meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences and the Europlanet Science Congress. Check out our summary of plenary sessions and press conferences on Day 1!

Illustration of the warping of spacetime around two black holes

The gravitational waves emitted by stellar-mass black holes merging with one member of a supermassive black hole binary might be a prominent target for upcoming observatories like LISA.

Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth
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How Did Arrokoth Get Its Mounds?

The New Horizons spacecraft flew by the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth more than four years ago. Today, this fascinating, lumpy, bi-lobed object still holds plenty of mysteries.

Messier 101 aka the Pinwheel Galaxy, site of SN 2023ixf

SN 2023ixf, which was discovered in May 2023 in the Pinwheel Galaxy, is the nearest extragalactic supernova observed in almost a decade. What did early data tell us about the event?

Artist's impression of a gaseous exoplanet closely orbiting its host star

Astrobites reports on a way to find giant planets so close to their host stars that they’re usually obscured by the star’s glare.

Researchers have identified the optical counterpart to an X-ray binary system, giving us clues about the nature of this extreme star system.