by Courtney Dressing | Feb 21, 2011 | Daily Paper Summaries
Assuming that we have acquired the spectrum of a distant terrestrial planet, what would it look like? Would we able to resolve surface features? More excitingly, would we be able to detect biomarkers in the atmospheres of alien Earths?
by Nathan Sanders | Feb 21, 2011 | Quick Notes
If you’ve been enjoying following the astrophysical literature by reading Astrobites, check out our new sister site, Chembites, which does the same thing for chemistry. If you know any undergraduate chem majors or anyone else interested in the science, be sure to point them towards it: http://chembites.wordpress.com/.Chembites has recently been founded by a group of seven chemistry graduate students at MIT. They’re posting summaries of chemistry journal articles aimed at undergraduate readers, just like we do for astronomy. For example, check out their recent post reviewing recent research looking for an imaging agent for myelin, which would help track the progress of Multiple sclerosis...