by Isabella Trierweiler | Feb 20, 2023 | Current Events
Summary of the Malaysian Astronomy session at IAUS 377, the first IAU conference in Southeast Asia since 1990!
by Ruth Angus | Apr 2, 2015 | Daily Paper Summaries
In July of this year (2015), NASA’s New Horizons mission will fly past Pluto and its moons. It will map the surface of the Plutonian system in unprecedented detail, revealing craters and other surface features for the first time. In preparation for the deluge of newly discovered craters, mountains, crevasses and other surface features, Mamajek et al. discuss a naming system for Pluto and its moons.
by Lauren Weiss | Aug 21, 2013 | Current Events
The International Astronomical Union wants you to name a planet! While you ponder what to submit as a planet name, read on to learn the history and politics that led to this exciting opportunity.
by Courtney Dressing | Aug 31, 2012 | Current Events
Over the past two weeks, several astrobites authors have been attending the 28th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Beijing, China. Like the semi-annual AAS meetings in the United States, the IAU General Assemblies are large meetings covering a range of topics in astronomy. Each meeting is subdivided into symposia, special sessions, and joint discussions covering specific research areas. You can view the full list of 34(!) topics here, but the list includes sessions like “Science with Large Solar Telescopes, “Calibration of Star Formation Rate Measurements Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum”, “Astrophysics in Antarctica,” and “The Intriguing Life of Massive Galaxies.” Each of the sessions could stand alone as a complete conference, so the IAU General Assembly is a very busy meeting.For today’s astrobite, I decided to feature five of the hundreds of fantastic posters on display at the conference. I had an incredibly hard time narrowing down the sample of posters and I highly encourage anyone currently attending the IAU to rush to the poster hall to view the posters that I wasn’t able to include in this post. If you presented a poster at the IAU and you’d like your poster to be featured on astrobites, please comment on this post with a short blurb about your research. Poster 1: Gas Velocity Dispersions and Star Formation Authors: K. M. Mogotsi, W. J. G. de Blok, and the HERACLES team First Author’s Affiliation: University of Cape Town Astronomy Department/ACGC Blurb: Mogotsi et al. combine measurements of the velocity dispersion of neutral hydrogen and carbon monoxide in nearby galaxies in order to test the common assumption that the...
