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Feed the Fire, Fade the Metals
Are cosmic clumps “homegrown”, or fueled by fresh inflow? Today’s authors find that star-forming clumps are usually more metal-poor than the disks around them.
A Potential New Piece of the “Little Red Dot” Puzzle
Today’s paper presents an intriguing new object, which may be a early-Universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon!
Sometimes You Do Have to Consider Them: Observing Magnetic Fields Using Pulsar Halos
Whether you like them or not, magnetic fields permeate the interstellar medium. Today’s paper outlines a novel way of observing them!
Spot the difference: eccentricity or precession
Don’t get bamboozled by this sneaky resemblance!
Black Holes Eating Stellar Shedding
Stars shed material as they shine, and today’s authors think this may be enough to power X-ray emission from a massive black hole!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a runaway supermassive black hole!
Have we just discovered the first direct evidence of a runaway supermassive black hole?
Beyond astro-ph
Astronomy beyond the research
Beyond: The Astronomy Community on Bluesky
Social media is a powerful opportunity to democratize access to academia. The community of astronomers on the Bluesky platform is rapidly growing, and invite you to join them.
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Astropy Collaboration
Today we interview Dr. Erik Tollerud, Dr. Kelle Cruz, and Clara Brasseur, who are accepting the 2025 Berkeley Prize on behalf of the Astropy Collaboration.
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Stella Offner
Today we interview Dr. Stella Offner, who is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and one of this year’s #AAS245 Plenary speakers!
Navigating careers in astronomy
Career advice
A guide to applying to astro postdocs. Part 1: Finding postdocs
In Part 1 of this 2-part guide to applying to astro/physics postdocs, a few Astrobites authors share tips on finding postdoc opportunities, based on their own personal experiences.
Interview with Prof. Alicia Aarnio, Assistant Professor and AAS WGAD Founding Member
An interview with Professor Alicia Aarnio, founding member of AAS WGAD, talking about her stellar science, and the joy and rage of navigating science with a disability.
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. Gail Zasowski
We sit down with Professor Gail Zasowski, plenary speaker at #AAS240, to hear about new techniques to understand the Milky Way Galaxy from the inside!