Climates of Distant Terrestrial Worlds
What determines the climate of an Earth-like planet orbiting its host star? A new study explores how distant worlds are shaped by their hosts.
What determines the climate of an Earth-like planet orbiting its host star? A new study explores how distant worlds are shaped by their hosts.
To confirm whether some galaxies have suspiciously low amounts of dark matter, we need to be sure how far away they are. Astrobites reports on a new approach for these measurements.
What determines the size and shape of the shadow of a black hole?
What caused the appearance of the fast transient SN2018kzr? A very interesting sort of neutron star may be involved.
What’s to be done when theory and observation don’t match? A recent study may have found a missing piece in our models of the Sun’s magnetic field.
Astrobites reports on a previously unexplained branch of cooling white dwarfs that is likely a traffic jam caused by an 8-billion-year delay in cooling.
Variable stars help us measure distances to galaxies like this stunning nearby spiral, NGC 6814.
How do you get close-in, giant planets on eccentric orbits? A new study suggests that a violent phase of planet-smashing might be a key part of the process.
As the Large Magellanic Cloud plows through the Milky Way’s dark matter halo, it may leave telltale signs of its passage.
Astrobites reports on a newly detected triple system of supermassive black holes feeding at the centers of merging galaxies.
A new study brings us a little closer to understanding a complex phenomenon that reaches across environments and scales in our universe.
How can the gravitational waves from black hole mergers help us understand the universe’s evolution?