A new GRB-Supernova
SN 2009nz may be the sixth GRB-supernova ever confirmed spectroscopically.
What makes more stars: bars or mergers?
Star formation at the center of galaxies can be triggered by both internal and external processes. In their new work, Ellison et al. argue that the internal processes may be more important.
Using the Moon as a scientific instrument
These authors use the surface of the Moon to distinguish between binary star systems separated by just thousandths of an arcsecond – far smaller than can be resolved by traditional imaging.
Visit Astrobites at AAS 218 in Boston
If you’ll be attending the AAS meeting in Boston this week, don’t miss the Astrobites poster! We’ll be giving away free cookies and bookmarks.
BOSS’s 3D map of the early universe
The BOSS project of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is exploiting the Lyman-α forest in distant quasars to make a 3D map of neutral hydrogen in the early universe.