From Hillary Diane Andales: Compact ultra-faint systems? More like confusing ultra-faint systems! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/06/e...

From Lucie Rowland : Are some of the most massive galaxies in the early Universe truly quenched, or just hiding their star formation behind dust? Today’s bite explores how ALMA helps solve this cosmic conundrum. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/05/d...

From Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan @shalinikv.bsky.social : Unveiling the interstellar medium of coming-of-age galaxies …to learn more about the origins of dusty galaxies at early cosmic times. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/04/u...

From guest author Arthur Magalhães @arthurmagalhaes.bsky.social : What are blue straggler stars and how are they formed? By using spectroscopy, today’s authors explain the link between this question and how fast these objects spin! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/03/b...

Ansh Gupta reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on RACS J0320−35, a quasar that appears to be breaking a cosmic limit by consuming matter faster than theory should allow. aasnova.org/2026/02/03/t... 🔭

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : Can galaxy interactions help young and old stars in spiral arms get to know each other? These authors’ simulations may have an answer! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/02/a...

From Kasper Zoellner: If we want to know about the conditions for life on an Earth-like exoplanet, can’t we just take a picture of it? The short answer is we can’t. The long answer as to why not is found in today’s bite. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/31/c...

From Ansh Gupta: When studying distant galaxies, SED fitting is one tool to rule them all. But how can we learn the detailed history of entire galaxies from just a few snapshots? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/30/s...

From Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social : There are a few locations in the solar system where the push and pull of gravity mellows out and you can orbit in (relative) peace. Read all about these islands of tranquility we call Lagrange points! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/29/w...

From Maria Vincent @themariavincent.bsky.social : Exocomet detections are becoming more promising and well studied. So, naming them is of more importance now than ever. Today’s bite summarizes a paper that proposes a nomenclature for exocomets. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/28/h...

From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : Are cosmic clumps “homegrown”, or fueled by fresh inflow? Today’s authors find that star-forming clumps are usually more metal-poor than the disks around them. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/27/f...

William Smith reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how active galactic nucleus disks might connect black holes across the mass spectrum, setting the stage for extreme-mass-ratio and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals in the same system. aasnova.org/2026/01/27/t... 🔭

From Drew Lapeer @giantmolecular.cloud: Today’s paper presents an intriguing new object, which may be a early-Universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/26/x...

From Catherine Slaughter @catieslaughts.bsky.social : Whether you like them or not, magnetic fields permeate the interstellar medium. Today’s paper outlines a novel way of observing them! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/24/p...

From Viviana Cáceres: Don’t get bamboozled by this sneaky resemblance! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/23/s...

From Brandon Pries: Stars shed material as they shine, and today’s authors think this may be enough to power X-ray emission from a massive black hole! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/22/m...

From Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas: Have we just discovered the first direct evidence of a runaway supermassive black hole? ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/20/r...

From Abbé Whitford @abbew25.bsky.social : In today’s bite, we talk about how one can efficiently measure bubbles of ionized gas that signal the epoch of reionization (EoR). ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/19/r...

Kasper Zoellner reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on whether the low-density planets that keep popping up in our growing collection of exoplanets are really the water worlds that we imagine them to be. aasnova.org/2026/01/20/a... 🔭

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : Reticulum II? More like Reticulum TWO distinct periods of star formation! Or at least that’s what new spectroscopic observations indicate. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/17/r...

From Lucie Rowland: What if some of JWST’s most extreme high-redshift galaxy candidates aren’t galaxies at all, but the explosive deaths of the very first stars? ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/16/t...

From Sandy Chiu: Massive galaxies all seem to end up quiet and quenched—but the physics inside them can look wildly different. Explore how AGN-driven cosmic rays reshape galaxies from the inside out, changing local conditions without altering their ultimate fate. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/15/c...

From Mckenzie Ferrari: Some type Ia supernovae involve a companion star that somehow survives the energetic explosion. What can we learn from these companions? ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/13/s...

Ansh Gupta reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how astronomers got a closer view of the distant and mysterious little red dots. aasnova.org/2026/01/13/a... 🔭

From Will Golay: Low frequencies can reveal magnetic structures in the lowest mass stars and may even be the key to the first direct radio detection of an exoplanet. Learn about the first detection of a low-mass ultracool dwarf at the low frequency of 340 MHz! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/12/l...

From Caroline von Raesfeld: Today’s astrobite looks at how we can use observations of gamma-rays and neutrinos to test our models of cosmic rays. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/10/c...

Our interviews with Jan 8th's plenary speakers #AAS247 🧪☄️🔭✨:

Its the last day of #AAS247! Make sure you don't miss the last few talks from folks at Astrobites! Kicking us off at 10 AM in room 221 B is Briley Lewis ( @briles34.bsky.social ) giving a talk on writing education in astronomy! 🔭🧪☄️

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...

Our interviews with the plenary speaker for tomorrow, Jan 7th! #AAS247 ☄️🔭✨🧪

Our interviews with the plenary speaker for tomorrow, Jan 7th! #AAS247 ☄️🔭✨🧪

Our interviews with today's plenary speakers: #AAS247 ✨☄️🔭

Hello everyone at #AAS247 ! If you're interested in star formation, star clusters, or anything of the sort (or just wanna say hi), come check out my talk tomorrow!

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!

Dear undergrads attending #aas247: It's that time of year! The SETI Institute, a non-profit private scientific research institution located in California’s Silicon Valley, invites you to apply for a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates program for highly motivated students... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#AAS247 Space Telescope Science Institute: NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

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! 🔭

Hi #AAS247! My talk on our simulation-based interpretation guide for CGM observations will be on Tuesday at 2:30 in room 228B 🔭

Here we go. President Dara Norman kicks off the first plenary session.

Today from 3:40-4:30 PM MT in West Building 301AB: Dr. Burgasser's plenary on brown dwarfs! Check out our interview with him here: astrobites.org/2026/01/05/m... #AAS247

Happening now - Dr. DellaGiustina's Plenary on the OSIRIS-REx mission. Check out our interview with her here: astrobites.org/2026/01/05/m... #AAS247

Need the wifi login? It's on the back of your badge! #AAS247

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! 🔭 ☄️ 🧪

Tomorrow Jan 5th at 11:40 AM MT: Dr. James Binney gives his RAS Gold Medal plenary on galactic structure; check out our interview with him here: astrobites.org/2026/01/04/m... 🔭☄️

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 ☄️✨🔭🧪

From Joe Williams: JWST offers new insights into the vertical structure of this protoplanetary disc, special for the ambient emitting background that provides a back-light. Find out what the JEDIce program has discovered! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/01/j...

From Viviana Cáceres: Subtle whispers in gravitational waves put general relativity to the test. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/12/30/t...

From Annelia Anderson @astroannelia.bsky.social : Today’s paper argues that a little red dot with a massive Balmer break could be a black hole star. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/12/29/b...

From Kasper Zoellner: Simulating an entire galaxy is not easy if you want your result sometime this century. But today’s paper brings us a neat trick that might just help speed things up. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/12/26/t...

From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : Studying dwarf galaxies provides unique insights to galaxy evolution. Today’s paper explores how resolving stellar populations of isolated galaxies allows us to determine their star formation history! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/12/25/r...