Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: George Fisher
“Twists, turns, and dynamic interplay between magnetic fields and plasma in the Sun’s atmosphere”: We interviewed solar physicist George Fisher about his plenary talk at the upcoming #AAS242!
SOFIA: NASA’s flying infrared observatory prepares for its final take-off
NASA’s SOFIA mission, an infrared telescope aboard a Boeing 747SP that helped discover the universe’s oldest molecule and found water on the sunlit surface of the Moon, is preparing to fly for one last time tonight.
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen
Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator at NASA Science and plenary speaker at AAS 240 reflects on the need for an entrepreneurial drive in Astronomy students.
Standard Siren Updates from the Latest LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Catalog
The latest LIGO-Virgo catalog presents a new set of ‘standard siren’ events that can be used to study the cosmic history of our universe. Read more…
A Unique Hypernova Revealed by a Star Rising from its Ashes
Carl Sagan once said, “we are all made of star-stuff”. Even stars are made of star-stuff: coming from an older generation of stars! A new observation has allowed astronomers to turn back the clock and study the earliest stages of this cycle.