Stealing from the Solar System: the Effects of a Stellar Fly-By
The outer reaches of our solar system harbor a number of mysterious features. Astrobites reports on whether a single stellar fly-by could help explain them all.
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Getting WISE-r About Variable Stars
What sorts of variable objects can be found in a trove of infrared data? Astrobites reports on five years of WISE observations.
A Stellar Review: Re-Analyzing the Kepler Stellar Radii with Gaia
Astrobites reports on how the new Gaia data impacts our understanding of Kepler stars and planets.
A Very Close Planet That Is Way Out of Line
Astrobites reports on an unusual exoplanet that transits its host star on a tilted orbit.
A White Dwarf Moving With The Flow
Astrobites reports on what we can learn from a white dwarf found moving along with a group of main-sequence stars.
Clearing Up Stellar Streams with Gaia
Astrobites reports on how Gaia is helping us understand elements of our own galaxy — such as the long streams of stars that extend within the Milky Way’s stellar halo.
Dust n’ H2
What if the diffuse interstellar medium isn’t smoothly distributed? Astrobites explores how the gas and dust between stars might clump up, and what impact this would have on the formation of large molecular clouds.
An EPIC View of the Earth as an Exoplanet
Astrobites reports on how studying the Earth as an exoplanet can help us to understand more distant worlds in the future.
A Classic Optics Experiment, in Space, with Asteroids and AGN
Astrobites reports on what we learned from the occultation of an active galactic nucleus by an asteroid.
Optics to Outrace Them All
Astronomers are using a once-secret technology to scrutinize Kepler stars. Astrobites reports on the implication this has for our observations of exoplanets.