August 2025 research and news items The big news this month is the giant planet around Alpha Centauri A, I will be looking forward to more information on this planet which appears to be a Saturn Gas giant, not was I was expecting to find. Atmospheres around planets orbiting close in to small red Dwarf stars are not looking to promising, I also found an older paper on the subject when reading about the Trappist Planets. Keep a watch of observations on interstellar comet 3I Atlas. Some interesting news articles out too this month and a few of top picks are below. A lot of research to read and study here A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A Orbital and Physical Properties https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03814 A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A Binary Star Modeling https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03812 Imaging low-mass planets within the habitable...
September 2024 News and research papers Hi Folks Not too many papers this month that I’ve found but there are some really interesting ones well worth a read this month. The Earth having a ring was interesting. There was a look at F type stars I’m thinking Sirius here, perhaps below 2 solar masses and you could have a nice exo planet for life. There is also a look at the fauna of long lost NZ, and a reasonable explanation of the Neanderthals disappearing too, I’m thinking sure the ice ages numbers couldn’t have been too high. A synchronous moon as a possible cause of Mars' initial triaxiality https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14725 Short-timescale Spatial Variability of Ganymede's Optical Aurora https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad49a2 Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X24004230 Nightside Clouds on Tidally-l...
Hi Everyone Please find this month’s News and Starcharts attached along with all the interesting research. There is a good look at the Trappist planets that I myself still need to read, these papers also tie in well with the Exo Venuses. Following on from that a few goon ones on Exo planets too. With all the posts about starlink it’s been a real interest for many people and there is a good paper on the issue here too. I feel like I have a lot of reading to do this month. Amazingly it’s a nice mild clear night tonight too here in Wellington, we might be in for a stormy winter too. Thanks Edwin Research papers A good update on the Trappist planets here Thermal Emission from the Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b using JWST https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05951-7 The Demographics of Terrestrial Planets in the Venus Zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03055 A New D...
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