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NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars - NASA Science New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic

We have some new results featured here: science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

Inside the January 2026 Issue The January 2026 issue of Sky & Telescope explores nebulae from the VdB catalog and dives into the inner workings of neutron stars.

Excited to have an article in the January 2026 edition of Sky & Telescope (with my lovely nuclear physics colleagues Kai Hebeler and Achim Schwenk)! Join us for a Journey into Neutron Stars.....

skyandtelescope.org/sky-and-tele...

An illustration of a man walking out of a dark, paper-filled world into a bright, colorful one. With text: I thought science hinged on prestige. Moving abroad made me reassess my priorities

"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life ..."

Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://scim.ag/3Y573en

Future Space-based Gamma-ray Pulsar Timing Arrays Radio pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments using millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are beginning to detect nHz gravitational waves (GWs). MSPs are bright GeV gamma-ray emitters, and all-sky monitoring of ab...

Two new preprints, one with forecasts for a future gamma-ray pulsar timing array 😎 arxiv.org/abs/2512.14981 arxiv.org/abs/2512.15065

Nancy Grace Roman telescope is out of the thermal vacuum chamber and getting ready to launch in 2026

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Fast X-ray Transient Detection with AXIS: application to Magnetar Giant Flares" by Michela Negro (Louisiana State University, USA) and 8 others based in the USA and Canada

doi.org/10.33232/001...

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Vacuum birefringence in the polarized X-ray emission of a radio magnetar. Rachael E. Stewart et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19446

There are handheld calculators that can run Python now.

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

The question you must ask yourself is does it need to be on the moon and is it a cost effective way to do the science?

CHIME/FRB/Pulsar discovery of a nearby long period radio transient with a timing glitch We present the discovery of a 421 s long period radio transient (LPT) using the CHIME telescope, CHIME J0630+25. The source is localized to RA=06:30:38.4$\pm1'$ Dec=25:26:24$\pm1'$ using voltage data ...

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arxiv.org/abs/2407.07480

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NSF and NIH suspend grants to UCLA Move follows Trump administration finding that school didn’t effectively combat antisemitism

The Trump administration is launching a new wave of attacks on universities, and UCLA is the latest target.

My reporting on how the university has been hit and how some of its scientists are responding:
www.science.org/content/arti...

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AAS Journal Author Series: Kaustubh Rajwade on 2025ApJ...985L...3R YouTube video by AAS

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AAS Journal Author Series: Kaustubh Rajwade on 2025ApJ...985L...3R

Kaustubh Rajwade (University of Oxford) chats about his article on a radio burst from a neutron star in the Carina Nebula.

Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany:
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪

Last week, NASA and NSF released their FY26 budget requests. We list the detailed impacts on the astronomical sciences in this blog post, and share how you can take action today.
aas.org/posts/news/2...

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Detection of X-ray emission from a bright long-period radio transient - Nature A long-period radio transient with coincident radio and X-ray emission and observational properties unlike any known Galactic object has been observed by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder.

Nature research paper: Detection of X-ray emission from a bright long-period radio transient

https://go.nature.com/43xlKZS

Plot showing two tiles vertically stacked. Top tile shows the signal from this object as observed in radio. It presents as two narrow peaks. The bottom tile represents the signal in x-rays, and presents as more broader peaks that have extended features. The peaks for both radio and x-rays occur at the same phase

What makes ASKAP J1832-0911 stand out from the rest of the Long-Period Transients is that, for the first time, coincident X-ray emission, along with radio emissions, have also been detected from such an object, thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

📸 Ziteng (Andy) Wang / @icrar.bsky.social

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Looking up at the Capitol rotunda against a blue sky. An American flag in front of the rotunda is blowing in the wind.

The president's budget proposal cuts billions in funding from the DOE Office of Science, NIST, NASA, and the NSF — but there’s still time to change it. Tell your lawmakers why they should stand up for science using our letter-writing toolkit, targeted to your state: go.aps.org/3RP9EWF

The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned by the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more here: aas.org/press/aas-st... and take action now: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Inside Trump and Musk’s Takeover of NASA So far, NASA has been spared the sweeping cuts that DOGE has unleashed on other federal agencies. Is that about to change?

It’s unclear whether Elon Musk’s enthusiasm for space exploration, and his influence with President Trump, could help shield NASA from sweeping cuts—or encourage Musk to remake it in his image.

Joint Radiative and Kinematic Modelling of X-ray Binary Ejecta: Energy Estimate and Reverse Shock Detection Black hole X-ray binaries in outburst launch discrete, large-scale jet ejections which can propagate to parsec scales. The kinematics of these ejecta appear to be well described by relativistic blast ...

Alex Cooper's paper resurrecting GRB models for X-ray binary jets - after a nearly 25 year hiatus.
Here, we use a modified jetsimpy model to include reverse shock emission for both energy and kinematics for X-ray binary MAXI J1535-571
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arxiv.org/abs/2503.10804

new preprint! 🥳