🔭 Paper day, and it’s a big one! We have found the most metal-poor object known in the universe. It’s a star, and it comes to us from our nearby friend the Large Magellanic Cloud. Out in Nature Astronomy today: rdcu.be/fbylI
Photo montage of the 2026 class of the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program. Title, centered at top, reads: 2026 NHFP Fellows. At top right is a small logo with astronomical images that reads: NHFP. Three categories of fellows are listed in groups, left to right. Heading for first is: How Does the Universe Work? Einstein Fellows. Tightly cropped portraits of 10 researchers in hexagons appear below. Heading for second: How Did We Get Here? Hubble Fellows. Portraits of 8 researchers in hexagons appear below. Heading for third group: Are We Alone? Sagan Fellows. Portraits of 6 researchers appear below. At bottom left is the label: NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program named 24 postdoctoral scientists to its 2026 class. These researchers will investigate how the universe functions, seek to understand how the universe evolved, and try to answer the question: Are we alone? ➡️ https://news.stsci.edu/4t5pxc1
BTS out of the army after three years... back with a new album... we are so back!!!!!
Collage of participants from previous LSST-DA data science fellowship program years.
📢 Applications are open for the 2026 LSST Discovery Alliance Data Science Fellowship! 🔭🧪
Learn the skills needed to work with the huge datasets from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s 10-year survey.
Apply by Mar 27: lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/lsst-discovery-alliance-programs/data-science-fellowship
omg I've been thinking about this too-- so nice of Rose to give us a theme song!!!
A Table showing the number of positions posted at AAS job-registed for various categories.
Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.
New paper! We measured the SFH of WLM using AGB stars, finding it to be in excellent agreement with SFHs measured from the oMSTO.
This test shows that AGB stars can produce SFHs comparable in accuracy to those currently available in the LG, now in galaxies at d>50 Mpc.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.00243
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Congrats Catherine!!!
#paperday! RR Lyrae stars are a common, dependable Population II distance indicator, and provide an independent tracer of early star formation. We test the feasability of RR Lyrae research with archival JWST data using nearby dwarf galaxy WLM! 🔭
On the arXiv now: arxiv.org/abs/2602.21205
Read this thread to understand what it's (still) like for people in MN right now. And go to standwithminnesota.com to help
NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks
NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-p...
Delighted to have played a small role in this decision as a member of the Physics Cluster of the Committee of Sciences and Arts at Franklin: news.uchicago.edu/story/prof-w... 🔭👩🔬
‘The science world is ending’
#AcademicSky
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Are you a grad student interested in writing for Astrobites, or do you know one? We're recruiting! Apply by November 26 :)
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If you're interesting in observations of stellar populations/nearby galaxies, Dan Weisz's group is hiring two postdocs! Come work with me and live in paradise in California 🌞
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Costco knows How It’s Done
In this bite, the Astrobites authors discuss recent changes to the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help. 🔭✨☄️
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Hey #exoplaneteers (and other early career folks) - applications for the 2026 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program are open!
www.stsci.edu/stsci-resear...
The bechdel test for astronomy should be whether a department has a higher number of professors that are women vs professors that are named Dan
omg😂😂😂😭
Alex Ji, speaking at Galactic Frontiers II, using the cat “chonk chart” to classify dwarf galaxies, where his favorite ultrafaints are “fine bois”.
Definitely using the novel Ji (@alexji.bsky.social) mass-based dwarf galaxy classification scheme moving forward 🔭
A grid of images of the 25 brightest stars on the night sky is shown. The grid is 5 x 5. Some stars look bluer or more orange than others Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
🔭 25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Tragoolchitr Jittasaiyapan
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The proposed NSF and NASA budgets would absolutely decimate astronomy. I wrote about for @astrobites.bsky.social you can check it out here: astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
From Abby Lee @abigaillee.bsky.social : As a part of AAPI month, we interviewed Dr. Janice Lee, an astronomer who uses space telescopes to learn about star formation! 🔭✨☄️
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"I've had to go through so much... just in order to become a child again and begin anew." - Hesse
Life is a journey. Thank you to the (newly minted!) Dr
@abigaillee.bsky.social for reflecting on it with me. 🔭🧪
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