Astrobites
Following Up on Flares: Can We Spot Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks?
Astrobites reports on the possibility of merging black holes producing flares within the accretion disks surrounding active supermassive black holes.
Astrobites
Dust Deal with It
Astrobites reports on why we might need a cosmic feather duster to see life on other worlds.
Features
When Bright Spots Go Dark
New modeling tests a common assumption that’s important for interpreting exoplanet spectra: that stars of all spectral types exhibit bright magnetized regions called faculae.