As part of our #BlackInAstro series for Black History Month, we interview Dr. Gibor Basri, a pioneer in stellar astronomy (one of the discoverers of brown dwarfs) and the founding Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion at UC Berkeley!
Have you ever heard of a star having six planets in a special configuration which makes them “dance”? Today’s paper discusses such a system, and tells us what we can learn from it.
GRB 210905A is one of the longest, most distant, most energetic, and most luminous gamma-ray bursts that we’ve ever detected. What can we learn from this outstanding outburst?
Graduate students at New Mexico State work for poverty wages, needing to pay for their own tuition and health insurance. In this bite, a student describes the fight to form a union and his university’s response. Learn more and sign their petition to show support.
Our planet is already blanketed by space debris. As small commercial satellites rapidly multiply, will humans block ourselves from space?