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Guide to CVs
What is a CV? How is this different from a résumé? How do I start building a CV? All of these questions and more await within this guide!
Twinkle, twinkle, little quasar! Can you tell me how far away you are?
When we don’t have spectra, we can estimate the distance to a quasar by calculating its photometric redshift. Today’s authors present a new way to use the ‘flickering’ of quasars to improve these distance estimates.
A Black Hole Egg that Forgot to Hatch
Giant black holes may have hatched from cosmic eggs. What happens when we find one on our doorstep?
Get back in line! A disc that won’t stay aligned with its planet
Planets should form aligned with their host protoplanetary discs. So why does this star have a planet and disc that aren’t at all in line?
Black Holes as Quantum Heat Engines: Extracting Work from Hawking Radiation and Probing the Information Paradox
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Begum Kutuklu models Schwarzschild black holes as quantum heat engines, offering new insights into the information paradox through thermodynamic analyses.
Dispu-tau-ble: When the Fog of Reionization Lifts, Mysteries Deepen
In today’s guest post, we explore if a small change in how we model the early universe could help solve issues in our understanding of dark energy and neutrinos.
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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.
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Dara Norman
Dr. Dara Norman shifts from magnification bias to representation bias in community tools such as white papers and advisory committees. Come learn about how access can fuel a revolution in inclusion at Dr. Norman’s talk at #AAS236.
Flipping the Paradigm: How Maunakea Scholars brings Astronomy Research to the Classroom
Learn how observatories in Hawaii are giving high school students the opportunity to work with world class telescopes in today’s Beyond Bite!