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Cosmic Fishbones: Strange Radio Streaks Behind a Racing Pulsar
As a pulsar speeds through the interstellar medium, it leaves behind a long, radio-emitting tail shaped by ram pressure. In the Lighthouse Nebula, however, the X-ray emission and radio streaks show unexpected orientations, offering clues to how cosmic rays escape and trace surrounding magnetic fields.
There’s a great wave rippling through our galaxy
The dynamics of our galaxy become evermore complicated as today’s authors discover a mysterious wave propagating out towards its outskirts.
The Goldilocks Core: Habitability from the Inside Out
Not just the right temperature for water, but the right chemical recipe: only planets formed in a narrow nitrogen-, phosphorus-, and oxygen-balanced “Goldilocks” zone may keep life’s key ingredients available at their surface.
What happens when you poke a black hole?
Can a sneezing ant destroy a black hole? Regge and Wheeler set out to find out.
Hang On To Your Water, Super-Earths!
We use bottles, and sometimes a Brita, but how do planets store their water? The authors of today’s paper made a model to find out, and to evaluate whether certain planets are good at hanging on to their water or not.
Weathering a Stellar Temper Tantrum: How space weather complicates exoplanet habitability
Exoplanets orbiting the most common stars in our galaxy experience intense space weather, raising questions about their ability to harbor life.
Beyond astro-ph
Astronomy beyond the research
More Than a Name – Why Women in Physics Deserve Context
Why should we give more context to the incredible contributions to STEM by exceptional women? And do you need to be exceptional to be successful? Find out in this interview with Dr Claire Davies!
Chapter 7 Summary Part 2: Energy Solutions by Rector and Yu, Climate Change for Astronomers
This post summarizes the second half of Chapter 7 of the book ‘Climate Change for Astronomers’, involving a discussion of energy sources available to us in the present, and the future, in order to understand the way forward for solutions to climate change. It also discusses how various solutions can be combined, how energy usage can be made more efficient, and how we can move towards creating a smarter and greener energy infrastructure.
The “Picture an Astronomer” Symposium
Today we highlight the “Picture an Astronomer” Symposium, with lectures and events happening in February and March!
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!