Pride Month: An Interview with Dr. Kaitlin Rasmussen
Happy Pride Month! Today we talk with Dr. Kaitlin Rasmussen, a cutting-edge astronomer pushing the boundaries of both science *and* gender.
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?
Looking for Alien “Lighthouses” in the Stars
If aliens are trying to get our attention, how should we look for their smoke signals? Today’s paper describes a search for broadband radio waves coming from our closest stellar neighbors!
The Standard Model Fails to Pass the Bar
The presence of dark matter particles in barred spiral galaxies should slow down their galactic bars. However, this is not what we observe. Are galactic bars telling us to reconsider the foundations of the standard model?
Writing Astrobites in Your Courses!
Over the last few years, we have been publishing Astrobites that students wrote for their courses. This is how those bites came to be!