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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 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
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Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 26th. 🔭✨☄️
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Apply to Write for Astrobites 2025!
Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 26th.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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From Lucas Brown @lucasb413.bsky.social : In today’s bite, we investigate a controversial paper from two years ago, tracing its origins and attempting to finally answer the question: are black holes dark energy? 🔭✨☄️
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So… Are Black Holes Dark Energy?
In today's bite, we investigate a controversial paper from two years ago, tracing its origins and attempting to finally answer the question: are black holes dark energy?
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November 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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From Viviana Cáceres: Today’s paper shows us how to repurpose microlensing surveys to study clumps of dark matter drifting through space. 🔭✨☄️
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Throwing Shade: How Clumps of Dark Matter Can Dim Starlight
Today's paper shows us how to repurpose microlensing surveys to study clumps of dark matter drifting through space.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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From William Smith: AGN disks might connect black holes across the mass spectrum in one bustling gaseous environment. As the black holes drift inward, their interactions may set the stage for both EMRIs and IMRIs in the same system. 🔭✨☄️
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The Black Hole Meet Up: EMRIs and IMRIs in the same AGN Disk
AGN disks might connect black holes across the mass spectrum in one bustling gaseous environment. As the black holes drift inward, their interactions may set the stage for both EMRIs and IMRIs in the ...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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From Hillary Diane Andales: Rubin will give us a wider and deeper view of the Universe than ever before. How many of the Milky Way’s tiny friends will it discover? 🔭✨☄️
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Finding the Milky Way’s faintest and farthest friends with Rubin
Rubin will give us a wider and deeper view of the Universe than ever before. How many of the Milky Way's tiny friends will it discover?
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October 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Drew Lapeer reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on the impact of galactic outflows on the formation of stars in the local starburst galaxy Messier 82. aasnova.org/2025/10/27/o... 🔭
Outflows, Shocks, and Star Formation in Messier 82
Astrobites reports on the impact of galactic outflows on the formation of stars in the local starburst galaxy Messier 82.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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From Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan @shalinikv.bsky.social : Can black holes light up the high redshift Universe? …and as a follow up, could they be a candidate for dark matter? 🔭✨☄️
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Can black holes light up the high redshift Universe?
…and as a follow up, could they be a candidate for dark matter?
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October 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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From Magnus L'Argent: Graduate student stipends have not been keeping up with inflation. 🔭✨☄️
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Physics graduate students in Canada still make poverty wages
Graduate student stipends have not been keeping up with inflation.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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From Ansh Gupta: Hot DOGs in space are more exciting than they sound. Let’s dissect the brightest one to learn how they hide black holes and some of the most extreme conditions in the universe. 🔭✨☄️
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How to Hide a Black Hole in a Hot Dog
Hot DOGs in space are more exciting than they sound. Let's dissect the brightest one to learn how they hide black holes and some of the most extreme conditions in the universe.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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From Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social : What does the surface of a red supergiant star look like? It’s no polarising statement to say that it has more in common with a pot of bubbling soup than you might think! 🔭✨☄️
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Judging a red supergiant book by its cover
What does the surface of a red supergiant star look like? It’s no polarising statement to say that it has more in common with a pot of bubbling soup than you might think!
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October 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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From Viviana Cáceres: Thick stellar winds might be blowing away the chances of forming intermediate-mass black holes from the collapse of very massive stars. 🔭✨☄️
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Gone with the (stellar) wind: Intermediate-mass black holes from very massive stars collapsing
Thick stellar winds might be blowing away the chances of forming intermediate-mass black holes from the collapse of very massive stars.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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What do marine microplankton have to do with high energy cosmic rays? Astrobites author Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social explains! 🔭✨☄️

You can learn more by checking out Ryan’s piece “What doesn’t kill them makes them (marine microplankton) stronger”:
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October 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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William Smith reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on the possibility of merging black holes producing flares within the accretion disks surrounding active supermassive black holes. aasnova.org/2025/10/20/f... 🔭
Following Up on Flares: Can We Spot Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks?
Astrobites reports on the possibility of merging black holes producing flares within the accretion disks surrounding active supermassive black holes.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM