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More Than a Name – Why Women in Physics Deserve Context
Why should we give more context to the incredible contributions to STEM by exceptional women? And do you need to be exceptional to be successful? Find out in this interview with Dr Claire Davies!
Jumping through hoops: A new way to explore the BH-galaxy connection
The BH-galaxy relations are crucial in our understanding of how they co-evolve. In today’s paper find out a new method to explore this relation.
Chapter 7 Summary Part 2: Energy Solutions by Rector and Yu, Climate Change for Astronomers
This post summarizes the second half of Chapter 7 of the book ‘Climate Change for Astronomers’, involving a discussion of energy sources available to us in the present, and the future, in order to understand the way forward for solutions to climate change. It also discusses how various solutions can be combined, how energy usage can be made more efficient, and how we can move towards creating a smarter and greener energy infrastructure.
A Story of Starlight and Spirals in the Milky Way
New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies, named after a Greek goddess.
Echoes of the First Light: A Mysterious Metal-Poor Galaxy at Cosmic Dawn
A tiny galaxy, barely metal-enriched, is packed with massive stars. Could it hold clues to the universe’s first stars?
Exploring the remains of a destroyed (death) star
Today’s paper explores the potential connection between two transient astronomical phenomenon: Tidal disruption events and extreme coronal line emitters.
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Meet the Keynote Speakers: Konstantin Batygin
Planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin discusses the elusive Planet Nine and how he fell into astrophysics whilst waiting for his rock band to become the next Metallica.
Illuminating teaching, and the art of going where you want to go
We all teach, in some form, every single day. For many academics that means a class full of students eager to learn. And yet we are so very rarely taught to teach. Here we introduce one simple morsel that can improve our way of explaining something immensely: deciding what you want to say, and then saying it.
Let’s talk about policy, baby
Whether we like it or not, policy affects the way we do science. Read on to learn about it, and how you can help shape policy yourself!