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. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/04/n...

From Lindsey Gordon @lcgordon.bsky.social : Today’s authors use FLAMINGO simulations to probe the tension between different observational methods of estimating cosmological parameters. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/04/f...

From Brandon Pries: How does one prevent a black hole from growing in a tiny galaxy? Today’s authors investigate two potential mechanisms! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/03/b...

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. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/02/d...

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... 🔭

From Diana Solano-Oropeza @dsolanooropeza.bsky.social : Turns out there’s more than one way to “plate” a planet! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/01/s...

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. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/27/c...

From Mckenzie Ferrari: Learn how rocket launches and the demand for satellites threaten astronomy and the ozone layer. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/26/r...

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! ✨⚫️🔭 www.supercluster.com/editorial/da...

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...

From Lindsey Gordon @lcgordon.bsky.social : Today’s authors consider the way AGN jet shape changes our measurements of blazar polarization. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/24/b...

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...

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. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/22/q...

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... 🔭

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...

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...

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. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/17/b...

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... 🔭

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...

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! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/15/o...

From Erica Sawczynec @ericasawczynec.bsky.social : In today’s bite we discuss the use of inclusive teaching practices in physics classrooms and why physics professors are unlikely to implement more even though they help all students learn more effectively! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/13/i...

From Maria Vincent @themariavincent.bsky.social : In today’s bite, the author dives into this beloved classic to search for lessons it has for everyone in academic astronomy 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/12/a...

Today’s guest post from Sophie Bergstrom presents an investigation of HE0450-2958 — a quasar with a “missing” host galaxy. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/11/u...

From Chloe Klare: In this exciting new paper, our authors show that in quasars, X-ray coronas fueled by energy stolen from the accretion disk around the black hole may be responsible for the interesting ultraviolet and optical emission we see! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/09/q...

We're incredibly grateful for Emily having hosted the Astronomy feed herself for two years — a feed which we use every day! There is now an option to support the hosting of the feed so that we can all continue to share astronomy on Bluesky. 🔭☄️

From Annelia Anderson @astroannelia.bsky.social : Today’s paper explores the detectability of primordial black holes as a potential dark matter candidate. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/08/i...

Niloofar Sharei reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on a surprising dust curve in a distant galaxy that challenges what we know about cosmic dust. aasnova.org/2025/09/08/a... 🔭

From Catherine Slaughter @catieslaughts.bsky.social : Pulsating variable stars are useful astronomical tools for their consistency. How can astronomers better understand how their changes change over time? 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/05/b...

How do you produce ultra-high-energy neutrinos like KM3-230213A? Guest author Domenik Ehlert explains how cosmic rays may be behind it! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/03/k...

Kasper Zoellner reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how clouds might actually be a good thing when it comes to detecting biosignatures with NASA’s proposed next-generation space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory. aasnova.org/2025/09/03/w... 🔭

Today’s undergraduate research post features the work of Vrunda Macwan on black holes! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/02/u...

Today we crack open Young Massive (Stellar) Clusters! Shashank shares a recipe for cooking up YMCs via computational collision, Lucia peeks at their emergence from dust-embedded embryonic environs, and we wrap up by talking about Wittgenstein, for some reason. 🔭 astrosoundbites.com/2025/08/30/e...

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : It’s an itty bitty teeny weeny ultra faint dwarf galaxy-ni! Today’s bite talks about the discovery of the faintest galaxy in the Andromeda system! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/01/p...

From William Smith: The cosmological constant is a constant, right? But growing evidence suggests this might not be the case after all. Today’s authors further investigate the DESI analysis pushing our understanding of dark energy. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/30/t...

From Roel Lefever: One of the very best spots to look at the night sky can be found in Paranal, Chile! The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has built some of the worlds prominent telescopes there. However, the future of this unique night sky might be in trouble..🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/29/t...

From Drew Lapeer @giantmolecular.cloud : Today’s authors look at the impact of galactic outflows on the formation of stars in M82!🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/28/m...

From guest author Rajat Saxena: Today’s bite looks at how planets are formed in the “bumps” of protoplanetary disks.🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/26/b...

From Sandy Chiu: Cosmic rays, born from powerful events like exploding stars, are an elusive part of a galaxy’s interstellar medium. Today’s paper combines multi-wavelength observations of M82 to untangle how cosmic rays and magnetic fields shape its energetic core.🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/25/c...

William Smith reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how we might be able to observe gravitational wave signals from intermediate-mass black holes in binary systems with stellar-mass black holes. aasnova.org/2025/08/25/f... 🔭

From Tori Bonidie @toribonidie.bsky.social : Using data from NASA’s Juno mission, the today’s authors have discovered plasma conditions that don’t exist anywhere else we’ve ever explored in the solar system, giving rise to a whole new type of plasma wave mode. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/23/s...

From Samantha Wong: Looking to add a more modern touch to your physics teaching? Check out “Bringing Contemporary Physicists to the Classroom” for resources, slide decks, and more! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/22/c...

From Kasper Zoellner: Pieces flying left and right and a rock spinning around in its orbit – Take a look at the consequences of shooting an asteroid with a spacecraft in today’s paper! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/20/s...

From Alexandra Masegian @spiralgalexy.bsky.social : In today’s (Beyond) bite, I describe a new course at Columbia University that aims to equip undergrads with foundational research skills. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/19/p...

From Chloe Klare: Interested in the definitive, absolutely objective ranking of the best differential equations in astronomy and astrophysics?? Read on!! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/18/t...

From guest authors: coverage of “New Data that Challenge Underlying Assumptions in Early Galaxy Evolution”, the first conference hosted by the choir collaboration. astrobites.org/2025/08/17/c... 🔭✨☄️

From Sandy Chiu: It is generally believed that the X-ray emission from cold-core clusters comes from hot gas. This paper explores another possibility: are these X-rays simply an illusion of inverse Compton scattering by cosmic rays? 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/15/c...

The one thing better than studying the hugest compact objects is smashing them together! This time, we cover black hole mergers and what they reveal about our universe. Lucia explores some specific spins and Cole makes Shashank talk about cosmology again. 🔭 astrosoundbites.com/2025/08/16/e...

From Sarah Stevenson: In today’s classic 1956 paper, the authors measure a stellar diameter and kick off a debate about the quantum nature of light! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/14/h...

From Anavi Uppal @anaviuppal.bsky.social : The Infinity Galaxy might be home to a newborn supermassive black hole that formed directly from a gas cloud instead of a star. Could this help reveal how these objects formed in the early universe? 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/13/i...

Chloe Klare reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on the three galactic suspects in the case of an ultra-high-energy neutrino. aasnova.org/2025/08/13/u... 🔭