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How Good are Humans at Visually Identifying Gravitational Lenses?
In an era of increasing reliance on computers to classify astrophysical imagery, what role do humans have to play? Today’s paper examines human biases in visual searches for gravitational lensing.
Counting supermassive black hole binaries with customers at a coffee shop
A short guide on how estimate the number of supermassive black hole binary mergers by measuring how loud it is at your local cafe
Asymmetries are red, violets are blue, superflares are seen in white light, and H-alpha too!
We don’t fully understand the emission processes in stellar flares. These authors try to get to the heart of the problem with multi-instrument observations.
Earth as an Exoplanet
Who might be looking back at us?
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Breaking the Stigma around Community College: an astro[sound] bite
For many students, community college is part of their undergraduate education. We take a look at what community college is, the perception of a community college student, and share experiences from a few astronomers that started undergrad at a community college.
Smashing stellar nurseries together to see if they survive
Galaxy mergers are violent places, which makes simulating their effects on fragile molecular clouds very difficult. The authors of today’s paper manage to do it anyway!
Beyond astro-ph
Astronomy beyond the research
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Navigating careers in astronomy
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