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A treasure hunt for the origins of very high energy gamma rays
Today’s authors aim to answer the question: Where are very high energy gamma rays coming from?
Open Up Your Eager Eyes, Because I’m Mr. Broad Line
Polarity, reversing in the plasma sea
Ending coronal shines, choking off these field lines
But it’s just the price I pay, destiny is calling me
#BlackInAstro: June Reflections by KeShawn Ivory
Graduate student KeShawn Ivory reflects on what it means to him as a Black queer man for Pride month and Black Space Week to coincide, and the way his multiple identities shape his ideas of joy and community.
Rapidly Rotating But Not So Variable: A Brown Dwarf As Seen From Earth
Brown Dwarfs can have swirling cloudy atmospheres just like their planetary cousins, but, as observed from the ground, the subject of today’s bite isn’t quite so variable after all.
Young, cool, and on edge — an unstable protoplanetary disk
Is it possible to detect gravitational instability in a protoplanetary disk that is viewed edge-on? Today’s authors investigate the young disk around L1527 IRS.
(almost) No Time (for stars) to Die
How long does it take for a star’s core to collapse in a supernova explosion? Today’s authors use observations to place new constraints on the explosion timescale!
Beyond astro-ph
Astronomy beyond the research
#BlackInAstro: June Reflections by KeShawn Ivory
Graduate student KeShawn Ivory reflects on what it means to him as a Black queer man for Pride month and Black Space Week to coincide, and the way his multiple identities shape his ideas of joy and community.
UR: A Crisis in Cosmology? A new perspective on the Hubble Constant Tension
In our latest #UndergradResearch post, Sahil Ugale investigates the rate of expansion of the universe, and specifically the Hubble Constant Tension.
It’s #BlackSpaceWeek 2022: Celebrating Blackness in Astronomy and Space Science with Black in Astro
Astrobites previews #BlackSpaceWeek 2022 and covers a recent Nature feature on Black in Astro and its leadership!
Navigating careers in astronomy
Career advice
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!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Allison Strom
What can chemistry tell us about galaxies? The #AAS240 keynote speaker thinks it is basically the “DNA” of a galaxy. Find out more at Dr. Allison Strom’s talk!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Laura Kreidberg
After the boom in exoplanet atmosphere research this past decade, what will the field look like going forward? Find out at Prof. Laura Kreidberg’s #AAS240 Annie Jump Cannon Award plenary talk!