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One human, astrophotographer, and astronomer’s perspective while witnessing the total solar eclipse in 2017.
Astrobites
Earth Week x Astrobites 2023: Introducing our speakers!
To kick off #EarthWeekxAstrobites2023, we introduce our speakers and our climate communication theme. Come hear from our speakers at our live sessions this week – click the links in this post to register!
Climate change and space debris, a vicious cycle
We’ve written about the impact of satellite constellations on the environment. Today, we tackle the inverse: how climate change exacerbates the space debris problem.
Highly excited and concentrated: an academic stereotype or the gas in a galaxy?
Much like some astronomers, this distant galaxy keeps the lights on by maintaining high excitement and a central concentration (of hot gas)
Quench your inner star formation
Does one galaxy’s star formation quench another’s? Find out in today’s astrobite.
Bright galaxies blowing bubbles
Today’s paper takes a clear view of bubbles blown by bright galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. Gail Zasowski
We sit down with Professor Gail Zasowski, plenary speaker at #AAS240, to hear about new techniques to understand the Milky Way Galaxy from the inside!
Big, bright, bursty, AND early: what are the odds?
Just how rare is this hyperluminous heavily obscured active galactic nucleus in a dusty starburst in the early Universe?
Can you explain these long dark gaps in your cosmological resume?
Find out how dark gaps can help fill in gaps in our knowledge of reionization
Earth Week x Astrobites 2022: Introducing our speakers!
To kick off #EarthWeekxAstrobites2022 we introduce our speakers and how they integrate astro/physics and climate work in their careers!
A serving of X-rays in a stack of galaxies
Quiescent galaxy pancakes are filled with berry jam across cosmic time, and other lessons from galaxy stacking
Forecasting the obscured first few billion years
What will JWST reveal about the obscured early Universe? Today’s authors process simulations to find out
Rethinking the science conference format
How can we format science meetings to better serve all of us? Recent studies have a few recommendations
What do enormous, fabulous slugs have to do with giant galaxy formation?
Before giant galaxies, it was all slugs, mammoths, and big nebulous blobs of emission: find out why in today’s astrobite!
Catching High Energy Photons Leaking from Holey Galaxies
Today’s paper works to catch a leak with a new technique, using resolved Lyman-alpha line profiles to gain insight into the epoch of reionization
A Requiem for Dead Galaxies
Traces of magnified dust offer a requiem to early, dead galaxies that ran out of gas
Replacing our constellations with satellites
As satellite constellations crowd our night sky, today’s authors advocate for space as a globally shared resource rather than an entity to be owned and controlled
An Extreme, Distant Quasar in the Cosmic House of Mirrors
Step into the cosmic house of mirrors at this quasar party at dawn!
Blazing Hot DOGs at the Cosmic BBQ
Blazing Hot DOGs, in MY early Universe? It’s more likely than you think…Find out what happens at this particularly turbulent BBQ!
Gotta catch ’em all: the first neutron star-black hole merger detection!
Welcome to the family plot, NSBH! Learn more about LIGO’s two new additions to the stellar graveyard.
A Resolved Starburst Merger and an Unresolved Dust Problem
What’s going on behind the dust in starburst galaxy SHiZELS-14? Today’s authors use highly resolved data to find out!
Distant, Dusty Galaxy Hiding in the Dark
Today’s authors discover a distant galaxy cloaked in dusty darkness, and consider what it might reveal about galaxy evolution in the early Universe