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Potential Habitability of Extremely Tilted Planets
What happens when you take an Earth-like planet and tilt it nearly on its side? For life, its not as crazy as it sounds.
Are HII regions and star formation fila-meant to be together?
This hot and massive star is blowing a bubble of ionized Hydrogen, which forms spider web-like filaments of material that may be the catalyst for forming other massive stars.
Running up that hill: are some galaxy clusters moving away faster than others?
We discuss a new way to test the cosmological principle using X-ray studies of galaxy clusters in this Astrobite.
Spot the Difference! Disentangling High-z Galaxies
The early universe is a period of intense star formation across nearly all galaxies. Is it possible tell these galaxies apart from each other, when the universe was less than a few billion years old?
Grad Student Unions: Part 1 – History and the UC Santa Cruz Strike
The ongoing strike at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) has been making national news for months. In this first part of a two post series, we explore the history of graduate student unions in the US and the circumstances of the UCSC strike.
Meteor Showers and Common Misconceptions
Meteor showers are some of the most fascinating events in astronomy. In this post, guest author Laura Marseglia explains what is really happening when you see a meteor streak across the sky.
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