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Astromania: The Astronomy Card Game
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a professional astronomer? Are you interested in the process of studying the universe and making scientific discoveries? Check out Astromania: The Astronomy...
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Noclip on! Simulated primordial black holes could dance through Sun-like stars
Title: Orbital motion of primordial black holes crossing Solar-type starsAuthors: Vitorio A. De Lorenci, David I. Kaiser, Patrick PeterFirst Author’s Institution: Instituto de Física e Química,...
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Raising eSTEAM: An Interview with Samantha Gilbert-Janizek
“Prisons do not disappear social problems. They disappear human beings.” – Angela Y. Davis Who is Samantha Gilbert-Janizek? Image 1: A picture of Samantha Gilbert-Janizek. Samantha Gilbert-Janizek...
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Let’s Go Fly The Kite!
Title: An enigmatic 380 kpc long linear collimated galactic tailAuthors: Dennis Zaritsky, Jacob P. Crossett, Yara L. Jaffé, Yara L., Richard Donnerstein, Ananthan Karunakaran, Donghyeon J. Khim, Ana C....
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Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scouts Earn Their Classification Badges
Title: Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout: Surveying the Local Universe for Giant Star-forming ClumpsAuthors: Dominic Adams, Vihang Mehta, Hugh Dickinson, Claudia Scarlata, Lucy Fortson, Sandor Kruk, Brooke...
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It’s An Eyeball Summer, and Other Weird K/M-Dwarf Habitable Climate Tales
Title: Climate Regimes Across the Habitable Zone: a Comparison of Synchronous Rocky M- and K-dwarf PlanetsAuthors: Ana H Lobo, Aomawa L. ShieldsFIrst Author’s Institution: University of California,...
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Snow White and the seven(teen) dwarves search for dark matter
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Equitable access in an increasingly computational world
If you’ve ever taken a look up at a dark sky at night, your first reaction is probably one of awe. It’s a fair reaction — there’s a lot out there! So-called ‘deep field’ images — where we stare at an...
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Interview Series: Jorge Moreno
This post is the first in a two-part series highlighting Professor Jorge Moreno’s astronomy story inside and outside the classroom. To read more about his work towards creating a framework for an...
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Giant Impacts Go Boom (Machine Learning Edition)
Title: Accelerating Giant Impact Simulations with Machine LearningAuthors: Caleb Lammers, Miles Cranmer, Sam Hadden, Shirley Ho, Norman Murray, Daniel TamayoFirst Author’s Institution: Department of...
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Celtic Constellations
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The Solar System in the Mirror
Title: Modeling the Solar System as an Observed Multi-Transit System I: Characterization Limits from Analytic Timing VariationsAuthors: Bethlee M. Lindor & Eric AgolFirst Author’s Institution:...
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Baby Galaxies Love to Take 100 Million Year Naps
Title: CEERS: Increasing Scatter Along the Star-Forming Main Sequence Indicates Early Galaxies Form in BurstsAuthors: Cole, J. W., et al.First Author’s Institution: Department of Physics and Astronomy,...
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2 Fast 2 Furious (for an AGN flare)
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Zig-zagging across the universe
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Giving thanks to Carl Sagan for 90 years of science inspiration
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Using Machine Learning to Make A Really Big Detailed Simulation
Title: A Gigaparsec-Scale Hydrodynamic Volume Reconstructed with Deep LearningAuthors: Cooper Jacobus, Solene Chabanier, Peter Harrington, JD Emberson, Zarija Lukic, and Salman HabibFirst Author’s...
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I’ve Got Some Ocean Front Property… around a White Dwarf
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Beyond: The SuperComputing Conference (for Astronomers)
Disclaimer: The author of this bite was a student volunteer in 2023 and a lead student volunteer in 2024. While she is not being paid to write about SC, she has previously received...
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