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Have You Ever Wanted to Generate You Own Gravitational Waves? Now You Can!
Gravitational wave simulations may take supercomputers days to perform, but two undergraduates and their advisor have created a website that allows you to do them in seconds right from your laptop!
Adventure to an Asteroid: JAXA’s Hayabusa2 visits Ryugu
Earlier this year, JAXA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid — one that can hopefully tell us about the solar system’s past, and how life on Earth came to be.
Maunakea, Western Astronomy, and Hawai`i
Recent events surrounding the Thirty Meter Telescope have brought this ongoing controversy to the forefront of conversation once again. Building upon a previous Astrobite, today’s post reviews how western astronomy has historically interacted with the Indigenous Hawaiian community.
Big and Fuzzy or Small and Rocky? A Close-In Sub-Neptune with Near-Solar Metallicity
Observations from Hubble and Spitzer bring us one step closer to understanding the atmospheric compositions of intermediate-mass exoplanets.
Discovery of a star yeeted out of the Milky Way
The fastest Main Sequence star yet probably came from the Galactic Center.
The First Molecule in the Universe
SOFIA observations have detected HeH+ in the planetary nebula NGC 7027, shedding new light on the dawn of chemistry in the universe.
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