Back Alley Astronomy

Figure 1. Terrians, those mysterious inhabitants of the planet G889 in the 1990s TV series Earth2 . I just started a new job, and y...

Figure 1. “Raw” (top) versus “non-noisy” (bottom) periodograms for radial velocity data from Alpha Centauri B. Analyses by Xavier Dumu...

Figure 1. In the early stages of system evolution, young planets may be engulfed by their host stars. Credit: ESA / L. Calcada ...