Morpheus, God of Dreams and Morphological Galaxy Classification
Astrobites reports on a deep-learning network that classifies images of galaxies based on their shape, pixel by pixel.
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Cepheid Yourself: Confirming Tensions in the Hubble Expansion
Astrobites reports on whether new measurements can resolve the tension in the Hubble constant.
How to Find Exoplanet Oceans
Astrobites reports on how future telescopes may be able to detect oceans on distant exoplanets.
TESS Spies, with Its Little Eye, Something Multi-Planetary
Astrobites reports on TESS’s discovery of three super-Earth planets orbiting a star so nearby and bright that it can be seen with the naked eye.
Feeling Gassy?
Why don’t sub-Saturns accrete enough gas to become full-blown Saturns or Jupiters? Astrobites reports.
Seeking the Circumgalactic Medium with Dragonfly
Astrobites reports on whether an instrument designed to image low surface brightness objects can help shed light on ghostly structures of the circumgalactic and intergalactic media.
It’s Getting Hot, Hot, Hot With Coronal Loops
Are sunspots the key to answering the decades-old solar coronal heating problem? Astrobites reports.
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Astrobites reports on how applying color-magnitude diagrams to distant, semi-resolved galaxies may break new ground in understanding stellar populations on a massive scale.
Distances in the Dark: Using Binary Black Holes to Study the Universe’s Expansion
Astrobites reports on how astronomers can now measure the expansion rate of the universe using gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole mergers.
What We Don’t Know About Protoplanetary Disks
Astrobites reports on what ALMA observations tell us about the cause of dust rings and gaps in protoplanetary disks.