by Astrobites | Jun 16, 2016 | Current Events
We report on the afternoon of Day 3 of the summer AAS meeting in San Diego, CA. Highlights include black holes mosh pits leading to LIGO sources, using GRBs as standard candles, cosmological simulations of the early universe, and changing the scientific information on the internet with a Wikipedia edit-a-thon.
by Astrobites | Jun 15, 2016 | Current Events
We report on the morning of Day 3 of the summer AAS meeting in San Diego, CA. This morning LIGO reporting on the results from its first observing run and announced the confirmation of a second gravitational wave event – GW151226!
by Astrobites | Jun 15, 2016 | Current Events
We report on the afternoon of Day 2 of the summer AAS meeting in San Diego, CA. Highlights include deep discussions on the multiverse, the limits of scientific cosmology, and the atmospheric loss of Mars analyzed by the MAVEN explorer.
by Astrobites | Jun 14, 2016 | Current Events
We report on the morning of Day 2 of the summer AAS meeting in San Diego, CA. Highlights include exploring the Galaxy Zoo and citizen science contributions to astrophysics, detection of chirality outside the Solar System, and the atmospheres of exoplanets.
by Astrobites | Jun 14, 2016 | Current Events
We report on the evening of Day 1 of the summer AAS meeting in San Diego, CA. Highlights include a discussion of why satellite imagery is important, news about molecules in space, and an update on what we know about fast radio bursts.
by Astrobites | Jun 13, 2016 | Current Events
We report on the morning of Day 1 of the summer AAS meeting in San Diego, CA. Highlights include an overview of Enceladus, an update from the K2 mission, and recent news about exoplanets and brown dwarfs.