Obituary: Prof. Dr. Detlef Schönberner (1943-2026) With great sadness we say goodbye to Prof. Dr. Detlef Schönberner, who played a key role in shaping stellar physics at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) for decades and remained clo

Oh wow, Detlef Schönberner has passed away. His paper, "Asymptotic giant branch evolution with steady mass loss" and his series on the late stages of stellar evolution were staples of my PhD reading. www.aip.de/en/news/obit...

Your post prompted me to try to find the astronomy that Science has been publishing recently, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to filter the astronomy & planetary science out from the rest. Am I missing something?

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I have seen a couple of the #RubinFirstLook images and they are AH-MAZE-ING! Tune in.

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A network of red and yellow filaments, representing the cosmic web, stretches across a dark blue background on the cover of the April issue of Nature Astronomy. The coverline reads: "Universal connections".

Our April issue is now available to read! The cover image shows the (simulated) filaments of the cosmic web, and comes courtesy of the Tornotti et al. paper within the issue: nature.com/natastron/vo... #AstroSci

If planet 9 exists, is it more likely to be a close binary system than an isolated object? And if it is a binary, would it not therefore be a planet?

Black cosmic-ray streamlines are overlayed with yellow patches where micromirror scattering occurs.

Our March issue is here to read: https://bit.ly/4il4GfW The dynamic-looking cover image represents cosmic rays in galaxy clusters, and is linked to the Reichherzer et al. paper within the issue.

Abundant water from primordial supernovae at cosmic dawn - Nature Astronomy State-of-the-art computer simulations show that the first water in the Universe formed in primordial supernova remnants 100 Myr after the Big Bang, enriching future sites of planet formation to levels...

State-of-the-art computer simulations show that the first water in the Universe formed in primordial supernova remnants 100 Myr after the Big Bang, enriching future sites of planet formation to levels almost those in the Solar System today. Whalen et al.: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Astronomy

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