Featured Image: Navigating Turbulence Around an Active Young Star
Modelers explore how explosions of stellar plasma affect the passage of high-energy particles.
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New Life for Lunar Seismic Data
Fifty years ago, planetary scientists curated a trove of seismic data sent back from the Moon. Today, those data are getting another life in a new public archive.
Searching for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Through Simulations of Tidal Disruption Events
Could tidally disrupted white dwarfs help us find the elusive intermediate-mass black holes?
The Bared Minimum: Revealing a New Phase of Stellar Activity in HD 166620
Astrobites reports on the detection of Maunder Minimum–like behavior in the stellar activity curve of HD 166620.
Insights from Misaligned Black Hole Pairs
How many black holes formed from collapsing stars and how many formed from other black holes? Gravitational waves give us a way to find out.
DPS 54: Days 3, 4, and 5
Learn about the hunt for biosignature gases, the state of diversity in STEM, and what we would gain from a visit to the Uranian moons in our summary of DPS days 3, 4, and 5!
DPS 54: Days 1 and 2
Read about space-weathered asteroids, conditions on ancient Venus, and why photometry is more prescient than you might expect in our summary of DPS days 1 and 2!
Highway to the Venus Zone
Astrobites reports on which exoplanets are most likely to end up as Venus analogs: hot, dry, and uninhabitable.
DPS 54: Welcome!
This week we’ll be bringing you updates from the 54th DPS meeting, happening in London, Ontario, and virtually anywhere!
Software Updates: The Latest from the Astropy Project
Most astronomy research requires writing code. Recently, one of the most popular packages of the most popular programming language got a major update.
Deciphering the Cryptic Mystery of Buried Ancient Lava Flows
Can radar observations of our lunar neighbor help us uncover hidden regions of ancient lava flows?
Bright Galaxies Blowing Bubbles
Astrobites reports on an investigation of ultraviolet-bright galaxies during the epoch of reionization.