AAS 238: Day 1
This week we’re at the virtual summer AAS meeting. Here are the highlights from Day 1!
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AAS 238: Welcome!
This week we’ll be bringing you updates from the virtual 238th AAS meeting.
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A Peculiar Use of AI: Predicting Cosmic Velocities with Neural Networks
When studying the universe becomes too complicated for human brains, we turn to artificial intelligence! Astrobites reports on how a neural network can predict cosmic motions.
Keeping Time in the Milky Way with Chemical Clocks
Stellar ages are notoriously difficult to determine. Astrobites reports on a promising new method of estimating stellar age using chemical clocks.
New Insights from LIGO/Virgo’s Merging Black Holes
What’s the big picture behind the nearly 50 detected mergers of compact objects? The second gravitational-wave catalog is officially out — and the population statistics are in!
Finding Just the Right Type of Detonation
Type Ia supernovae show enormous variety, but they may all form in the same way. If so, what mechanism produces them?
Dwarfs from ELVES: The structure of dwarf satellite galaxies
How does the structure of the smallest galaxies vary with different environments? Astrobites reports on investigations via the ELVES survey.
A Highly Eccentric Journey
Astrobites reports on new constraints on the migration of Neptune in the early solar system.
What Fast Radio Bursts Tell Us About Galaxy Halos
Scientists are leveraging enigmatic bursts of radiation to learn about the hot, ionized gas around the Milky Way and other galaxies.
A Relic Black Hole in a Dwarf Galaxy
Could the recent discovery of a supermassive black hole in a low-mass galaxy be just the tip of the iceberg?
Inflating HII Regions Cause Star Formation to Pop
Astrobites explores what happens as balloons of ionized hydrogen inflate in space.