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Digestible summaries of the latest astronomy research. Written by an international team of grad students for undergrads! Supported by the @AAS_Office. #scicomm
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From Annelia Anderson @astroannelia.bsky.social : Today’s authors created a Sun-like plasma in a lab to study the Sun’s interior from Earth. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Bringing the Sun to Us
Today’s authors created a Sun-like plasma in a lab to study the Sun’s interior from Earth.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Do black holes have a family tree? Read more in today’s bite! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Spinning into the merging binary black hole family tree
Do black holes have a family tree? Read more in today's bite!
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November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : The galaxy M82 is host to an extended multiphase wind driven by star formation. Today’s paper attempts to use JWST observations of dust in the wind to understand the structure of its cooler gas. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Dust in the Wind: A New Tool for Understanding Galactic Outflows
The galaxy M82 is host to an extended multiphase wind driven by star formation. Today's paper attempts to use JWST observations of dust in the wind to understand the structure of its cooler gas.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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From Will Golay: We’ve known about pulsars for more than fifty years, but what about other kinds of repeating radio sources? Learn how this white dwarf binary might be the first peek into a new class of radio lighthouses! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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A New Kind of Radio Lighthouse
We've known about pulsars for more than fifty years, but what about other kinds of repeating radio sources? Learn how this white dwarf binary might be the first peek into a new class of radio lighthou...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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In today’s ep, we celebrate our glorious return from hiatus by tackling black holes in weird places. Shashank covers a lot of acronyms for BHs on top of other BHs, while Cormac does his 2nd Astrobite with a sausage in the title, establishing a worrying precedent.
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Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This image of Centaurus A shows a spectacular new view of a supermassive black hole's power. Jets and lobes powered by the central black hole in this nearby galaxy are shown by submillimeter data (colored orange) from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile and X-ray data (colored blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Visible light data from the Wide Field Imager on the Max-Planck/ESO 2.2 m telescope, also located in Chile, shows the dust lane in the galaxy and background stars. The X-ray jet in the upper left extends for about 13,000 light years away from the black hole. The APEX data shows that material in the jet is travelling at about half the speed of light.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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From Magnus L'Argent: Today’s paper reveals how atmospheric re-entry is not an end-all, be-all solution for cleaning up satellites from low earth orbit. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Burning up for your LEOve: Satellites and Atmospheric Pollution
Today’s paper reveals how atmospheric re-entry is not an end-all, be-all solution for cleaning up satellites from low earth orbit.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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From Brandon Pries: Astronomers have observations of red active galactic nuclei and theories of massive black holes, but are these connected? Read more in today’s bite! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Building Cradles for Massive Black Hole Seeds
Astronomers have observations of red active galactic nuclei and theories of massive black holes, but are these connected? Read more in today's bite!
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November 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Brandon Pries reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how X-rays influenced the formation of the first massive black holes in the universe. aasnova.org/2025/11/17/d... 🔭
Do X-Rays Help or Hurt Massive Black Hole Formation?
Astrobites reports on how X-rays influenced the formation of the first massive black holes in the universe.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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From Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas: Early galaxies create bubbles of ionised gas around them. Measuring their sizes could provide key insights into cosmology. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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What can ionised bubbles tell us about the expansion of the universe?
Early galaxies create bubbles of ionised gas around them. Measuring their sizes could provide key insights into cosmology.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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From Caroline von Raesfeld: Today’s astrobite looks at some interesting new detections of complex organic molecules by a protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Detecting new icy molecules around a newly-forming star with JWST
Today's astrobite looks at some interesting new detections of complex organic molecules by a protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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From Drew Lapeer @giantmolecular.cloud : Today’s paper looks at a galaxy hosting not one…not two…but three potential supermassive black holes! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Three Supermassive Black Holes for the Price of One in the Early Universe
Today's paper looks at a gaalxy hosting not one...not two...but three potential supermassive black holes!
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November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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From Kylee Carden: Neutron stars are some of the densest, most exotic objects in the universe. Today’s paper explores how simulating novel neutrino physics affects the outcome of neutron star mergers. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Don’t Like Your Neutrino Flavor? Transform It!
Neutron stars are some of the densest, most exotic objects in the universe. Today’s paper explores how simulating novel neutrino physics affects the outcome of neutron star mergers.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Veronika Dornan reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on the discovery of the faintest galaxy in the Andromeda system, Pegasus VII. aasnova.org/2025/11/12/d... 🔭
Do You Have This Andromeda Galaxy in Extra-Extra-Extra Small?
Astrobites reports on the discovery of the faintest galaxy in the Andromeda system, Pegasus VII.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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From Mckenzie Ferrari: See how astronomers trace a type Ia supernova’s “first steps” back to its origin. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Ia’m Just Getting Started: A Type Ia Supernova’s First Day
See how astronomers trace a type Ia supernova's "first steps" back to its origin.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Fast metal factories at z ~ 5, lessons from ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST
JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Today’s bite comes to your screen direct from the “Exploring the first billion years of the Universe” conference in Australia. Read on to find out what we’ve already discovered about the early Universe, and what’s still to come. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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A Week Down Under, Unifying Theorists and Observers of the High-Redshift Universe
Today's bite comes to your screen direct from the "Exploring the first billion years of the Universe" conference in Australia. Read on to find out what we've already discovered about the early Univers...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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From Sowkhya Shanbhog @chaotic-cosmos.bsky.social : Three active black holes, tangled jets, and fading light. This galaxy merger is a cosmic drama in action. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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A Triple Black Hole System Caught in the Act of Self-Quenching
Three active black holes, tangled jets, and fading light. This galaxy merger is a cosmic drama in action.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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From Mckenzie Ferrari: Teegarden’s Star b is a promising Earth-like planet, but future observations could change our view on its ability to support life. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Teegarden’s Star b: (Almost) Too Hot to Handle?
Teegarden's Star b is a promising Earth-like planet, but future observations could change our view on its ability to support life.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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This week, NSF added *another* bizarre requirement: Now, applicants must submit official transcripts. The original solicitation -- as in past years -- permitted students to submit *un*official transcripts, which was free for applicants and far simpler.

We'll update our Bite accordingly.
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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From Brandon Pries: How is the growth of massive black holes regulated by starlight and stellar explosions? Learn more in today’s bite! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Stellar Feedback Regulating Massive Black Hole Growth
How is the growth of massive black holes regulated by starlight and stellar explosions? Learn more in today's bite!
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November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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From Abbé Whitford: In today’s bite, we talk about how one can use the Antarctic environment to optimize radio astronomy measurements. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Probing the radio sky from Antarctica
In today's bite, we talk about how one can use the Antarctic environment to optimize radio astronomy measurements.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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From Ansh Gupta: Eating matter is what black holes do best, but what happens when we find one choking on its food? The answer might surprise you! 🔭✨☄️
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The Winner of the Cosmic Speed-Eating Contest
Eating matter is what black holes do best, but what happens when we find one choking on its food? The answer might surprise you!
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November 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Kasper Zoellner reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on the consequences of shooting an asteroid with a spacecraft. aasnova.org/2025/11/03/s... 🔭
Shot by the DART and We’re to Blame! Now That Space Rock Won’t Be the Same
Astrobites reports on the consequences of shooting an asteroid with a spacecraft.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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In today’s post, guest author Matheus Bernini Peron explains how UV radiation from neighboring stars can hamper giant planet formation. 🔭✨☄️
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Forming Giant Planets? Your Stellar Neighbors' UV Light Could Be a Problem.
In today's post, guest author Matheus Bernini Peron explains how UV radiation from neighboring stars can hamper giant planet formation.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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From Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas: Keeping track of millions of stars is tricky. Today’s authors take on the challenge of accounting for each one’s time of birth. 🔭✨☄️
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Sorry I missed your birthday by one million years: Accounting for the pre-main sequence delay
Keeping track of millions of stars is tricky. Today's authors take on the challenge of accounting for each one's time of birth.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM