Mehmet Z. Baykara, who is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Physics at Harvard University and has previously worked as an Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, will be joining the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) as a… Read More ›
Month: September 2017
Jupiter-mass planet orbiting giant star discovered
An international team of astronomers has discovered a Jupiter-mass alien world circling a giant star known as HD 208897. The newly detected exoplanet was found as a result of high-precision radial velocity measurements. The discovery was detailed in a paper… Read More ›
Accretion-powered pulsar reveals unique timing glitch
The discovery of the largest timing irregularity yet observed in a pulsar is the first confirmation that pulsars in binary systems exhibit the strange phenomenon known as a ‘glitch’. The study is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal… Read More ›