Focus on SOFIA: EXES
With EXES, a mid-infrared spectrograph, scientists have studied sources like young, hot stars and the icy Jovian moon Europa.
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Focus on SOFIA: FIFI-LS
Science with FIFI-LS, a far-infrared imaging spectrograph, spans everything from star formation in the nearby M51 to jet activity in a distant active galaxy.
My GREAT Experience with SOFIA: Part 2
It was 6 pm and I was boarding a plane for a 10-hour flight — but there were plenty of signs that this wasn’t your typical redeye.
My GREAT Experience with SOFIA: Part 1
What’s more exciting than jetting through the stratosphere over the Pacific Ocean? Doing so with an opening the size of a garage door gaping in the side of your airplane — while observing the universe!
Nine Years of Energetic Atoms from IBEX
How has the flux of energetic neutral atoms changed in the past decade?
Two More Explanations for Interstellar Asteroid ‘Oumuamua
More than a year has passed since the discovery of interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua, but we’re still exploring new scenarios to explain its odd behavior.
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Astrobites reports on how applying color-magnitude diagrams to distant, semi-resolved galaxies may break new ground in understanding stellar populations on a massive scale.
Featured Image: Tracking a Hole from the Sun
This dramatic image reveals the expansion of a large coronal cavity as it erupts from the Sun’s surface in the form of a coronal mass ejection.
A Link Between Fast Radio Bursts, Magnetars, and Supernovae?
A new study of an unusually bright supernova may have found the key to understanding what causes mysterious fast radio bursts.
Mapping Clouds on a Distant World
Hubble observations shed some light on the clouds of a nearby, planetary-mass object.
Distances in the Dark: Using Binary Black Holes to Study the Universe’s Expansion
Astrobites reports on how astronomers can now measure the expansion rate of the universe using gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole mergers.
AAS Publishing Releases New Video Series
You’ve got questions about AAS Publishing, and AAS Journals Lead Editor Frank Timmes has answers. Check out the AAS’s new video series!