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Galactic Dust Skeletons? They Might be Closer Than You Think!

Galactic Dust Skeletons? They Might be Closer Than You Think!

by H Perry Hatchfield | Jun 22, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

Dust mapping with Gaia has changed our perspective on the sun’s neighborhood, but how do revelations about the nearby structure of dust fit in with our understanding of the Milky Way’s large scale skeletal structure?

Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. Gail Zasowski

Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. Gail Zasowski

by Olivia Cooper | Jun 15, 2022 | Career Navigation, Current Events, Interviews, Personal Experiences

We sit down with Professor Gail Zasowski, plenary speaker at #AAS240, to hear about new techniques to understand the Milky Way Galaxy from the inside!

Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. David Weinberg

Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. David Weinberg

by Abby Lee | Jun 12, 2022 | Career Navigation, Current Events, Interviews, Personal Experiences

We sit down with Professor David Weinberg, one of the designers of SDSS, to talk about his plenary at #AAS240, “Asteroids to Reionization: The Broad Reach of Survey Astronomy”, and much more!

Women’s History Month: Dr. Ekta Patel

Women’s History Month: Dr. Ekta Patel

by Sahil Hegde | May 1, 2022 | Personal Experiences

In today’s post, we interview Dr. Ekta Patel, a Miller postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, about her astronomy journey.

Written in the Stars: the Moment our Galaxy Began Boiling

Written in the Stars: the Moment our Galaxy Began Boiling

by Catherine Manea | Apr 13, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

Today’s authors use stellar chemistry and kinematics to identify the moment our Milky Way cooked up its disk.

The end of star formation in satellites: where and when?

The end of star formation in satellites: where and when?

by Katy Proctor | Mar 26, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

How responsible is the Milky Way for the end of star formation in its satellite galaxies? Today’s authors investigate with the FIRE-2 simulations.

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