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UR #19: Outburst from an X-ray Binary
This month’s undergraduate research post features a student who examined V404 Cygni, an X-ray binary that underwent a period of outburst. Read on to find out more!
Astrobites at AAS 228: Day 4
We report on the morning of Day 4 of the summer AAS meeting in San Diego, CA. Highlights include an overview of the current state of exoplanet detection, supernovae, and black holes.
Astrobites at AAS 228: Day 3 Afternoon
We report on the afternoon of Day 3 of the summer AAS meeting in San Diego, CA. Highlights include black holes mosh pits leading to LIGO sources, using GRBs as standard candles, cosmological simulations of the early universe, and changing the scientific information on the internet with a Wikipedia edit-a-thon.
Astrobites at AAS 228: Day 3 Morning
We report on the morning of Day 3 of the summer AAS meeting in San Diego, CA. This morning LIGO reporting on the results from its first observing run and announced the confirmation of a second gravitational wave event – GW151226!