Astronomy
J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!
[/caption] It seems oddly appropriate to be writing about astrophysical jets on Thanksgiving Day, when the New York football Jets…
Symbiotic Variable Star On the Verge of an Eruption?
[/caption] November 23rd, astronomers from the Asiago Novae and Symbiotic Stars collaboration announced recent changes in the symbiotic variable star, AX Persei,…
Longstanding Cepheid Mass Mystery Finally Solved
[/caption] Cepheid variable stars - a class of stars that vary in brightness over time - have long been used…
Moon’s Mini-Magnetosphere
Many objects in the solar system have strong magnetic fields which deflect the charged particles of the solar wind, creating…
T-Dwarf Stars Finally Reveal Their Mysterious Secrets
[/caption] Astronomers have recently discovered an exotic star system which has shed some light on the mass and age of…
The Atmosphere of WASP-17b
One of the greatest potentials of transiting exoplanets is the ability to monitor the spectra and examine the composition of…
Twinkle Twinkle Little Missing Stars, How I Wonder Where you are?
[/caption] ‘Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?’ This nursery rhyme is one of the best loved…
Astronomer Brian Marsden Has Died
[/caption] From a Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics press release: Dr. Brian Marsden passed away today at the age of…
Do Puny White Dwarfs Make Wimpy Supernovae?
[/caption] Based on results from a radial velocity survey, Warren Brown, (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) and his team have placed a…
Catching Planets in the Womb
[/caption]Awhile ago I wrote on the difficulty of finding young planets. There, I mentioned one team announcing the potential discovery…