A Potential New Piece of the “Little Red Dot” Puzzle Astrobites reports on an intriguing new object that may be an early universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon.

Drew Lapeer reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on an intriguing new object that may be an early universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon. aasnova.org/2026/04/07/a... 🔭

#GoBlue 〽️😝

The April Fools Paper Review Process – 2026 There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2026 and provided some “peer review”.

There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2026 and provided some “peer review”.
astrobites.org/2026/04/06/april-fools-2026/

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Don't give them ideas... xkcd.com/3225/

here's to praying they can figure out proper sub-grid physics models sometime soon

*shaking my fist at silicon to do my job for me*

Skeleton squatting with text that says "My body turns submitted JWST proposals into rejections"

Happy Friday everyone! 🔭☄️

i really thought itd be today 😭

re: jwst cycle 5. just rip the bandaid off please

still frame from the beginning of Twin Peaks it is February 24th and Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in the town of Twin Peaks

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Astrobites is partnering with @blackinastro.bsky.social this year for Black Space Week! If you’d like to register to participate as a writer or interviewee you can fill out the Google Form below or in the QR code in the flyer! The deadline is Friday March 6th.
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Heathcliff sits atop a stack of garbage cans, piled high. He holds his hand to his ear, struggling to hear a sanitation worker standing by a garbage truck down on the ground. The sanitation worker says "I said, 'I don't like you very much.'"

18 Feb 2026

especially disappointing because a) i had amazing reviews and feedback from 2/3 reviewers and b) got absolutely screwed by last years changes so i couldn't apply as a grad student 🫠

seeing talk about un reviewed GRFP applications. super disappointing. when i applied during undergrad (2023) i had one reviewer who clearly didn't read my material. put a single period in each review box and scored me straight middle-of-the-road. don't know how common this was at the time. 🧪

“You’re the Jans-key to my happiness” w a photo of Karl Jansky

The NRAO released some radio astronomy valentines and NGL this one is making me giggle 💘

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u chicago not on the list lmao

Heathcliff leaps into the air, holding two buns out in front of him. He's chasing a group of birds, who fly away from him. Two men watch from a park bench, and one of them says "He's trying to make a sandwich."

13 Feb 2026

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CONFIRMED BY SCIENCE: anyone more online than me is a loser phone addict and everyone less online than me are basic underdeveloped normies

my flight from NL to Boston was cancelled so i now have a 2 hour layover in Detroit on my new flight

this is just enough time to smash one (1) coney dog at the airport Coney Island before returning to massachusetts

#Geese #The #Band

I KNEW A MAN

HE SAT BEHIND A DESK THAT WAS A MILLION FEET WIDEEEEE

BUT HE LAID DOWN HIS HAMMER AND HE DIEDDDDD

“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection.”

One of the 32 stunning illustrative plates to feature in Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750): publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

a small replica of JWST

a large replica of JWST

if i had a nickel for every replica of JWST i saw in Leiden i would have two nickels

sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive

giving up hope is the mind killer. i've already deposited every cent i own into fanduel to bet on your success

andy my goat

i still believe in you!!!!!!

i have been trying to slowly push people towards exactly this (especially in astronomy)👁️hosting your own slightly weird website and joining web rings is a great way to not hate your time spent socializing online

you won it in my heart