The Rainbow Village at AAS: A Gathering Place for People of Color in Astronomy
Astrobites introduces the Rainbow Village, a new initiative to bring together astronomers of color at the upcoming AAS meeting in New Orleans.
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Dusting for Spectral Fingerprints to Determine the Origins of Stars in the Milky Way Halo
Astrobites reports on the use of high-resolution spectroscopy to trace the origins of a metal-poor star in the Milky Way halo.
Siblings or Only Children: M-dwarf Planets
Astrobites reports on the differences between planets orbiting M dwarfs in single-planet and multi-planet systems.
Forget X-ray Vision: Using Gravitational Waves to Peer Inside the Sun
Astrobites reports on the far-out possibility of using continuous gravitational waves from faraway pulsars to learn about the inside of the Sun.
Let’s Be Real: A Call for Physically Realistic Assumptions
Astrobites reports on the assumptions used in photoionization models that affect our understanding of ionized gas clouds surrounding hot stars.
A Cosmic Game of LEGO
Astrobites reports on how to identify merging galaxies and investigate the importance of these collisions over cosmic time.
What Shapes the Edge of a Planetary System?
Astrobites reports on whether Jupiter-like exoplanets are responsible for defining the edges of multiple-planet systems.
Today in (Astro) Shop Class: How to Build a Molecular Cloud
Astrobites reports on how modeling molecular clouds can help us understand how these cosmic nurseries form stars.
Three’s a Crowd for Stars Around Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Astrobites reports on a way to use an unlucky star to learn about a pair of supermassive black holes.
Looking for a Dragonfly in the Sky
Astrobites reports on a new study of the Dragonfly pulsar wind nebula — a possible source of particles with energies up to a quadrillion electronvolts!