Saturn, A History
What are some relationships between Saturn, one of our brightest night-sky objects, and cultures around the world?
2024 Album of the Year: A Total Eclipse of the Sun
Astrobites Authors bring to you firsthand accounts of the action on the path of totality, and the surreal experience of watching the celestial shadow.
“Our plans are measured in centuries”: Using Gravitational Waves to predict how Supernovae Collapse
Read ahead to find out if the authors of today’s paper are the Bene Gesserit of our Universe!
To Be the Eclipsed: Astronomy Outreach in the Prison System
For many, Monday’s eclipse presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the Sun and Moon align. For others, the situation is far from simple.
How to Have the Best Time with Atomic Clocks and Millisecond Pulsars
What time is it? For many applications, ranging from GPS navigation to interferometry-based astronomy, answering this question with extreme precision is crucial. To do so, one needs a highly stable clock. Currently, the most stable clocks are atomic clocks, but they are not perfect. Today’s paper presents a method to improve the stability of the time signal from atomic clocks by combining it with the time signal from millisecond pulsars.
It’s Not Just Academic: Challenges faced by international students during the Covid-19 pandemic
International students were impacted in many ways during the pandemic. This paper attempts to study how they coped and what structural barriers they faced.