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Beyond: Why Falling Off Walls Makes Me a Better Scientist
Resilient researchers know how to fail. Learning how to fail, however, is easier said than done.
Guest: Wolf-Rayet Stars and Compact Object Collisions: A Stellar Recipe for Gravitational Waves
How do compact objects end up in binaries? Today’s authors investigate how Wolf-Rayet stars could provide a key insight into the development of binary compact objects.
Origin of the plume in M86: Ram pressure stripping or galaxy-galaxy collision?
Using X-ray observations from XMM-Newton, this paper studied the chemical makeup of the hot gas around the galaxy M86, which is being stripped as it moves through a cluster. They found that the galaxy’s core still holds onto its enriched gas, and that part of the stripped material likely comes from a past galaxy collision—not just the core being peeled away.
Why is there more matter than antimatter? Gravitational waves may help us find the answer
In today’s astrobite, we talk about how gravitational waves could provide insight on particle physics, events in the early Universe, and even matter and antimatter asymmetry.
Please, Please, Please Be a Neutron Star
In today’s Astrobite by Guest author Danielle Dickinson, searches for a remnant neutron star at the heart of Supernova 1987A!
Testing The Waters: Determining The Origin of The Cocytos Stream
How do you distinguish between home-grown and imported stars in the Milky Way? You use the Gaia space observatory, of course!
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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Hernán Quintana
Professor Hernán Quintana has been a central figure in rebuilding astronomy education in his home country of Chile. He is the first recipient of the AAS Education Prize from a country outside the US or Canada.
Meet the Keynote Speakers: Delores Knipp
Prof. Delores Knipp studies possibly the coolest-sounding thing ever: space weather!
Meet the Keynote Speakers: Daniel Wang
Daniel Wang studies the flow of matter and energy in galaxies, and his plenary talk today will discuss the important role of the central supermassive black hole in our own Milky Way.