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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 19h

From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Do galaxies shut off star formation from the inside-out or the outside-in? And what does that tell us about their history? 🔭✨☄️
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A Tale of Two Quenching Pathways

Do galaxies shut off star formation from the inside-out or the outside-in? And what does that tell us about their history?

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 1d

In Part 3, we discuss 2 additional papers using the BAO measurement to perform additional analyses. 🔭✨☄️
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Part 3: Extended Physics Analyses with the DESI DR2 BAO

Today Astrobites is featuring results from the DESI DR2, published today in PRJ! In Part 3, we discuss 2 additional papers using the BAO measurement to perform additional analyses.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 1d

In Part 2, we discuss 3 additional papers discussing the DESI BAO measurement. 🔭✨☄️
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Part 2: Data Analysis with the DESI DR2 BAO

Today Astrobites is featuring results from the DESI DR2, published today in PRJ! In Part 2, we discuss 3 additional papers discussing the DESI BAO measurement.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 1d

Today Astrobites is featuring results from the DESI DR2, published today in PRJ! In Part 1, we cover the key results papers describing their measurements with DR2. 🔭✨☄️
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Part 1: Key Results from the DESI DR2

Today Astrobites is featuring results from the DESI DR2, published today in PRJ! In Part 1, we cover the key results papers describing their measurements with DR2.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 2d

Kylee Carden reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how we might someday detect moons around planets outside our solar system by precisely tracking the positions of a star and a planet. aasnova.org/2025/10/06/f... 🔭

Finding Avatar’s Pandora: Exomoons with Astrometry

Astrobites reports on how we might someday detect moons around planets outside our solar system by precisely tracking the positions of a star and a planet.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 2d

In this bite, the Astrobites authors discuss recent changes to the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help. 🔭✨☄️
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Big Changes to the NSF’s Graduate Fellowship Mean Big Problems

In this bite, the authors discuss recent changes to the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 3d

From Lindsey Gordon @lcgordon.bsky.social : Today’s authors use FLAMINGO simulations to probe the tension between different observational methods of estimating cosmological parameters. 🔭✨☄️
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Using Galaxy Halos to Study Baryonic Feedback in FLAMINGO

Today's authors use FLAMINGO simulations to probe the tension between different observational methods of estimating cosmological parameters.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 4d

From Brandon Pries: How does one prevent a black hole from growing in a tiny galaxy? Today’s authors investigate two potential mechanisms! 🔭✨☄️
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Does Feedback Support Massive Black Hole Growth in Dwarf Galaxies?

How does one prevent a black hole from growing in a tiny galaxy? Today's authors investigate two potential mechanisms!

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 5d

From Kylee Carden: In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed itself into an asteroid in a binary system. Today’s paper investigates the unexpected evolution of the binary’s orbit after the collision. 🔭✨☄️
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Asteroid Deflections are like a Box of Chocolates

In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed itself into an asteroid in a binary system. Today’s paper investigates the unexpected evolution of the binary’s orbit after the collision.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 7d

Tori Bonidie reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems. aasnova.org/2025/10/01/p... 🔭

Planetary Hide and Seek

Astrobites reports on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 7d

From Diana Solano-Oropeza @dsolanooropeza.bsky.social : Turns out there’s more than one way to “plate” a planet! 🔭✨☄️
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Super-Earth, Super-Tectonics?

Turns out there's more than one way to "plate" a planet!

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 10d

From Abbé Whitford: Today’s Astrobite summarizes Chapter 3, Climate Modelling, from the e-book ‘Climate Change for Astronomers’, to discuss how climate models work, their limitations, and the status of projections from climate models. 🔭✨☄️
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Chapter 3 Summary: Climate Modelling by Anna Yabre, Climate Change for Astronomers

Today's Astrobite summarizes Chapter 3, Climate Modelling, from the e-book 'Climate Change for Astronomers', to discuss how climate models work, their limitations, and the status of projections from c...

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 11d

From Mckenzie Ferrari: Learn how rocket launches and the demand for satellites threaten astronomy and the ozone layer. 🔭✨☄️
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The Atmosphere’s Health is Astronomy’s Future

Learn how rocket launches and the demand for satellites threaten astronomy and the ozone layer.

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Lucas Brown @lucasb413.bsky.social · 12d

Have you ever wondered how we might go about finding microscopic black holes from the dawn of time?

Check out my new article for @supercluster.com — my first published piece of science writing outside of @astrobites.bsky.social! ✨⚫️🔭

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Dark Matter Detectives Are Searching for Tiny Black Holes

It was first proposed that black holes could form directly from the small, random density fluctuations inherent to the chaotic primordial universe. The studies from which the idea emerged — pioneered ...

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 12d

From Kylee Carden: Though moons are ubiquitous in our Solar System, we have not yet found one elsewhere (an exomoon). Today’s paper investigates whether we could find moons by precisely tracking the positions of a star and planet. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/09/25/e...

Finding Avatar’s Pandora: Exomoons with Astrometry

Though moons are ubiquitous in our Solar System, we have not yet found one elsewhere (an exomoon). Today’s paper investigates whether we could find moons by precisely tracking the positions of a star ...

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 13d

From Lindsey Gordon @lcgordon.bsky.social : Today’s authors consider the way AGN jet shape changes our measurements of blazar polarization. 🔭✨☄️
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The Impact of Blazar Shape on Polarization Measurements

Today's authors consider the way AGN jet shape changes our measurements of blazar polarization.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 14d

What is a CV? How is this different from a résumé? How do I start building a CV? All of these questions and more await within this guide written by many of our authors! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/09/23/g...

Guide to CVs

What is a CV? How is this different from a résumé? How do I start building a CV? All of these questions and more await within this guide!

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 15d

From Anavi Uppal @anaviuppal.bsky.social : When we don’t have spectra, we can estimate the distance to a quasar by calculating its photometric redshift. Today’s authors present a new way to use the ‘flickering’ of quasars to improve these distance estimates. 🔭✨☄️
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Twinkle, twinkle, little quasar! Can you tell me how far away you are?

When we don’t have spectra, we can estimate the distance to a quasar by calculating its photometric redshift. Today’s authors present a new way to use the ‘flickering’ of quasars to improve these dist...

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 16d

Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on supermassive black holes in the early universe that may have been hiding phases of their growth. aasnova.org/2025/09/22/a... 🔭

Are Quasars Growing in Secret?

Astrobites reports on supermassive black holes in the early universe that may have been hiding phases of their growth.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 18d

From Ansh Gupta: Giant black holes may have hatched from cosmic eggs. What happens when we find one on our doorstep? 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/09/19/b...

A Black Hole Egg that Forgot to Hatch

Giant black holes may have hatched from cosmic eggs. What happens when we find one on our doorstep?

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 19d

From Joe Williams: Planets should form aligned with their host protoplanetary discs. So why does this star have a planet and disc that aren’t at all in line? 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/09/18/f...

Get back in line! A disc that won’t stay aligned with its planet

Planets should form aligned with their host protoplanetary discs. So why does this star have a planet and disc that aren't at all in line?

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 20d

In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Begum Kutuklu models Schwarzschild black holes as quantum heat engines, offering new insights into the information paradox through thermodynamic analyses. 🔭✨☄️
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Black Holes as Quantum Heat Engines: Extracting Work from Hawking Radiation and Probing the Information Paradox

In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Begum Kutuklu models Schwarzschild black holes as quantum heat engines, offering new insights into the information paradox through thermody...

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 21d

Caroline von Raesfeld reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on research that explores if we’ll be able to find a star that has formed from the gas enriched by only one stellar predecessor. aasnova.org/2025/09/17/l... 🔭

Looking for a Single Stellar Ancestor: Mono-Enriched Stars in Zoom-In Simulations

Astrobites reports on research that explores if we’ll be able to find a star that has formed from the gas enriched by only one stellar predecessor.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 22d

In today’s guest post by Ben Sherwin, we explore if a small change in how we model the early universe could help solve issues in our understanding of dark energy and neutrinos. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/09/16/d...

Dispu-tau-ble: When the Fog of Reionization Lifts, Mysteries Deepen

In today’s guest post, we explore if a small change in how we model the early universe could help solve issues in our understanding of dark energy and neutrinos.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 23d

From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : There is a lot we don’t understand about the gas in galaxy clusters. Today’s paper provides new insight using a powerful X-ray space telescope! 🔭✨☄️
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What’s Going On in Galaxy Clusters?

There is a lot we don't understand about the gas in galaxy clusters. Today's paper provides new insight using a powerful X-ray space telescope!

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