From @neevshah101.bsky.social: A direct descendant of the first stars! Read today’s bite to learn how the authors found it. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/26/child-of-first-stars/

...Dr. Maura McLaughlin talk about the NANOGrav project! #AAS247 astrobites.org/2026/01/07/m...

A double feature at 11:40am #AAS247: Dr. Xavier Siemens and.... astrobites.org/2026/01/07/m...

Dr. Maya Fishbach's plenary on gravitational waves: #AAS47 astrobites.org/2026/01/07/m...

Check out all the action from the first two days of #AAS247 with our summary wrap posts! ☄️🔭✨🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/06/a... astrobites.org/2026/01/07/a...

At 4:40pm: Dr. Tonima Tasnim-Ananna's plenary on current and future surveys of AGN #AAS247 astrobites.org/2026/01/06/m...

At 3:40pm: Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan's plenary on the first black holes in the universe #AAS247 astrobites.org/2026/01/06/m...

At 11:40am: Dr. Alexander Furnas's plenary on science in policymaking and the current state of affairs #AAS247 astrobites.org/2026/01/06/m...

At 8:10am: Dr. Adam Leroy's plenary on the ISM of nearby galaxies #AAS247 astrobites.org/2026/01/06/m...

Its day two of #AAS247 and we have more talks from our authors! Catch Drew Lapeer ( @giantmolecular.cloud ) in room 224A at 2:00 PM and Annelia Anderson ( @astroannelia.bsky.social ) in room 228B at 2:30 PM!

Later in the day at 2:00 PM, Niloofar Sharei ( @astroneal.bsky.social ) will be giving a talk in room 229b! Come support our authors and learn about the scientists behind Astrobites! #AAS247 🔭

Want to hear about some of the cool science our authors are doing at #AAS247? Two of our authors are giving talks today! Kicking us off at 10:10 AM in room 222c is Skylar Grayson ( @skylargrayson.bsky.social ) with her dissertation talk! 🔭

Astrobites will be covering #AAS247 Jan 4-8 from beautiful (sunny!?) Phoenix AZ! We'll have liveblogging here on this account & daily summaries and interviews with the plenary speakers over at astrobites.org ☄️✨🔭🧪

Are you at #AAS247 and want to learn more about Astrobites? 👀 You can find us in the Exhibition Hall all week (near the Sky & Telescope booth, next to the iPosters)! You can also find us tonight at the Grad School & REU Fair! Come by to say hi, ask questions, and learn about who we are! 🔭 ☄️ 🧪

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Do black holes have a family tree? Read more in today’s bite! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/11/21/g...

Spinning into the merging binary black hole family tree astrobites.org/2025/11/21/g... by @neevshah101.bsky.social @astrobites.bsky.social report on the potential implications of our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110 🔭☄️🧪⚛️

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded Kareem El-Badry, assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, with a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, an honor that comes with a "no-strings-attached" grant of $800,000. www.caltech.edu/about/news/k...

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today’s bite explores how neutrinos might inform us about a neutron star being engulfed by another star! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/28/n...

Writing a scientific paper as a first author for the first time is so so daunting, intimidating, terrifying 🥺 But it doesn't have to be this way. What are some tools, support, encouraging frameworks that professors, mentors and advisors share with their students to write their first papers? ✍️🏼🙏🏼🔭

Today for @blackinastro.bsky.social's theme of #ShareTheUniverse for 🪐 Black in Space Week 🔭, we have two very special interview articles with black astronomers Logan White and Phoenix-Avery Sarian! Summaries for each article and links in the thread below ⬇️!

From Neev Shah: Today we interview Dr. Saavik Ford, a professor at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/10/m...

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today we interview Dr. Danny Milisavljevic, associate professor at Purdue University and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/08/m...

Hey I’m hiring a 4-year PhD student in #astronomy at UCC to work on studying massive black holes in cosmological simulations! Fast turn around on this bc it is so late (due 6 June) but please pass on to any interested and qualified students! Feel free to dm/email me! 🔭🧪 www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...

Excited to announce the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18! To offset the uncertain funding landscape, we are offering a hybrid option + requiring NO registration fee. Non-faculty are especially encouraged to apply! Please apply by May 31! More in the replies! 🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro

For Pride month this year, Astrobites is looking to highlight transgender astronomers and we want YOU! We are planning to interview four astronomers about their experience being transgender in science, how they've dealt with barriers throughout their career . . . (1/4)

It's the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday. I see a lots of pictures being posted, for me the most important images it took were the images that uncovered what stars look like that explode as core-collapse supernovae. E.g. this from Mattila et al. (2008) (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ....)

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today’s bite explores where those binaries came from. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/04/08/s-stars-around-sag-a/

Astronomers - if you're submitting to the prestigious Acta Prima Aprilia journal and could use a peer review, make sure you shoot us a link so we don't miss you! 🔭✨☄️

WHAT IS A NEUTRON STAR? And why should you care? Please enjoy this delightful lecture by @profannawatts.bsky.social about ZOMBIE STARS 🧟‍♀️ 🔭 ⚛️🧪 #scicomm www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12S...

Space Drafts #105 is happening on March 18 at 7:30pm Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts105. Aafaque Khan will be talking about cosmic collisions and Lily Whitler (@astronomicalily.bsky.social) will be telling us about cosmic dawn!

Applications are open for our visiting grad student program (pre-doc program) at the CCA @flatironinstitute.org! Reach out if you're a student interested in: - Preparing for Gaia DR4 - Stellar streams - Data-driven methods for spectroscopy (and want to apply!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔭

Congrats to @briles34.bsky.social on this cool paper! #Undergrad #College #Science arxiv.org/abs/2309.05822

The Art of Planetary Science is in full swing at @uarizonalpl.bsky.social Come visit this weekend!

From Neev Shah: Curious about how Gaia BH3 formed? We have the next best thing! Today’s bite explores how it may not have formed. 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2025/02/17/g...

Nine years ago we announced to the world that we have detected #GravitationalWaves we did it! youtu.be/lslUF9gdYI8

Every semester, our graduate students are awarded three nights of observing time on the Kuiper 61" telescope for eyepiece observing! It is a truly unique opportunity to use research-grade facilities to connect with the dark skies near Tucson 🔭 Image credits: Mahdi Naseri