Paul M. Sutter
How Growing Giant Planets Fight for Food
A new study has shown that in order to grow more than one giant planet in the same solar system,…
The Voids Closest to Us May Not be Entirely Empty
The large scale structure of the universe is dominated by vast empty regions known as cosmic voids. These voids appear…
Perhaps a Supervoid Doesn’t Explain the Mysterious CMB Cold Spot
For years cosmologists had thought that a strange feature appearing in the microwave sky, known as the CMB cold spot,…
Life on Proxima b Is Not Having a Good Time
The nearest known exoplanet to Earth, the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, experiences some pretty nasty space weather from its parent…
Most Exoplanets Suffer Worse Space Weather Than We Do
We have it relatively easy on the Earth. Our Sun is relatively calm. The space weather environment in the solar…
Trading Spaces: How Swapping Stars Create Hot Jupiters
Star clusters tend to host more hot Jupiters than average, but why? A team of astronomers have proposed a new…
How Artificial Intelligence Can Find the Source of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gamma-ray bursts come in two main flavors, short and long. While astronomers believe that they understand what causes these two…
Chipping Away at the Great Attractor Mystery. Another Galaxy Cluster Found Behind the Milky Way’s Disk
Something huge lurks in the shadows of the Universe. Known as the Great Attractor, it is causing the Milky Way…
Check Out the Journey From Raw Data to Beautiful Image
Creating astronomical images is no easy task, and astronomers with the European Southern Observatory have provided a handy guide to…