Calling all undergraduate research!
We post about the most recent research in astrophysics — but in doing so, we rarely get to feature any work done by undergrads. Here’s your chance to help us fix this!
Saturn’s Great White Spot
In the most recent issue of Nature, two articles were published about Saturn’s most recent Great White Spot; these features are huge storms on Saturn which occur once every 30 years or so (a year on Saturn is 29.5 Earth years). This storm appeared in mid-December, a bit ahead of schedule.Since there are already so many articles about it, I thought I would just post some links: Nature news article Nature letter: Sánchez-Lavega et al. (2011) Nature letter: Fischer et al. (2011) LA Times article NASA/ Cassini Mission article Saturn’s Great White Spot. From NASA/JPL:...
Pyrotechnics
Happy July 4th!
Guest posts at Physics Today and GradHacker
An article about how to get involved in outreach at Physics Today and a description of astro grad student life for GradHacker.
Announcing Gradhacker
Gradhacker is a new website with tips for graduate student life.
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.