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A Windy Day in the Milky Way
Feedback from star clusters can have a major effect on the surrounding gas. Today’s paper investigates whether star clusters can also drive turbulence and what that means for our understanding of stellar feedback.
Parker’s Solar Wind
Today’s bite takes a look at a paper that changed our understanding of stars and the stuff that streams from them. Read on to learn more about the physics surrounding Parker’s discovery of the solar wind.
Mind the gap: A tale told by black holes
How massive can stellar black holes be?
Changing Stripes: Probing the Host Galaxies of Changing Look AGN with MaNGA
Is anything special about the host galaxies of changing look AGN?
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It Isn’t Gatorade Quenching This Galaxy
Post-starburst galaxies have stopped forming new stars, but astronomers are still trying to figure out why. Today’s paper looks at an unusual galaxy to see what might be quenching its star formation.
Beyond astro-ph
Astronomy beyond the research
UR #26: Measuring the Radio Corona of Young M Dwarf Stars
Today’s undergraduate research post features a student who used radio images of red dwarf stars to tease out clues about the particle acceleration in their coronae.
UR #25: Improved Methods for Ground-Based Follow-Up of Young Stars and Planets from the ZEIT Survey
Today’s undergraduate research post features a student who carried out ground-based follow-up observations of exoplanet hosting stars found by space telescopes!
The CO2 Elephant in the Room: Curbing the Carbon Footprint of Astronomy
We’re doing a lot of harm to the planet that we stand on as we look up towards the stars. In this post, PhD student Isobel Romero-Shaw explains why astrophysicists in particular need to reduce their carbon emissions, and how we can go about doing this.
Navigating careers in astronomy
Career advice
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof James Lowenthal
Find out more about the challenges that satellite constellations, like SpaceX’s Starlink, pose to modern astronomy. Hear Prof James Lowenthal’s thoughts at his joint #AAS236 talk (with Prof Sandra Cruz-Pol) on Tuesday 2nd June at 12:40 pm (EDT).
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Jo Dunkley
Hear from Jo Dunkley about the future of CMB observations as well as her journey into Academia at #AAS236.
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
We sit down with Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger, the 236th AAS Meeting’s Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer to discuss her quest to find life on other planets using the information we know about our own.