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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?
Studying bubbles from the early Universe: an efficient matched filter approach
In today’s bite, we talk about how one can efficiently measure bubbles of ionized gas that signal the epoch of reionization (EoR).
Back for Seconds: Evidence of Two Bursts of Star Formation in an Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy
Reticulum II? More like Reticulum TWO distinct periods of star formation! Or at least that’s what new spectroscopic observations incdicate.
Beyond astro-ph
Astronomy beyond the research
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Alexandra Pope
Today we interview Dr. Alexandra Pope, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of this year’s #AAS245 Keynote speaker!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Dave Pooley
Today we interview Dr. Dave Pooley, professor at the Trinity University and one of this year’s #AAS245 Keynote speaker!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Jason Kalirai
Today we interview Dr. Jason Kalirai, Mission Area Executive at the Johns Hopkins APL and one of this year’s #AAS245 Keynote speaker!
Navigating careers in astronomy
Career advice
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. David Weinberg
We sit down with Professor David Weinberg, one of the designers of SDSS, to talk about his plenary at #AAS240, “Asteroids to Reionization: The Broad Reach of Survey Astronomy”, and much more!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Robert Lupton
Curious about how we convert 0’s and 1’s into images? Then go listen to Dr. Robert Lupton’s talk at #AAS240!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. Héctor Arce
Interested in the legacy and future of the Arecibo Observatory? Find out more at Dr. Arce’s #AAS240 plenary lecture on Monday, 13th June!