Time for a new #NewAthenaNuggets #astrosci!
✨ “Exploring Evaporating Atmospheres with NewAthena” — Raven Cilley, Lía Corrales & George King @umich.edu
🔗 Read it here
www.the-athena-x-ray-observatory.eu/en/node/999
Have you used the new Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive (archive.stsci.edu/missions-and...) in your research? I'd love to hear what you think! Or, if this is the first time you're hearing about it, it's all the COS and STIS spectra combined by unique targets, searchable by object type #astrosci
Earlier papers on cosmological time dilation would use the word dilatation instead. Whilst they mean the same, I am glad the field has settled on dilation. #astrosci
Missed this opportunity previously but all my #astrosci friends should consider applying!
Meet Niloofar Pourjafari, our second (and final) March 2026 GradHighlight ✨ Niloofar is a PhD student at the University of Calgary studying galactic magnetic fields using radio observations 🌌 Check out her research here: casca.ca?page_id=22650
#astronomy #astrosci #extragalactic
Black holes have evolved from theoretical curiosity to a key testing ground for modern physics. | https://bit.ly/48Rgc0t
But Eugene Chua argues the models used to study them rely on untested assumptions, including those behind Hawking's theory of black hole evaporation. #astrosci 🔭
Donate on March 25 to:
🌟 Physics and Astronomy - 2V017
🌟 Physics Scholarship - 2S061
More information about WVU Day of Giving:
🔗 dayofgiving.wvu.edu/eberly
#physics #astronomy #STEM #research #astrophysics #astrosci #science #gradschool #fundraiser
Starting next week, I will be the interim STIS branch manager, stepping back into a management role at STScI after delivering a refurbished Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive. Really looking forward to leading this venerable Hubble instrument again! #astrosci
Hey #astrosci scientists, has anyone included a "I did not use AI" disclosure in one of their recent papers? I would like include one in an upcoming work, so I want to see if there is already a standard.
A story about our new, mysterious, long period transient.
Interesting work by Joshua Pritchard and others, including (@elenchically.bsky.social, @manishacaleb.bsky.social, @funfactscience.com, @a-zic.bsky.social, @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social...)
phys.org/news/2026-03...
#RadioAstronomy #AstroSci
Meet Pau Bosch-Cabot, our first March 2026 GradHighlight! Pau is a PhD student at the University of Lethbridge working on characterizing the relativistic jets launched by black hole X-ray binaries 🌌 Check out his research here: casca.ca?page_id=22640
#astronomy #astrosci
New on @galaxyzoo.org blog (and on arxiv): spiral galaxies with large double radio sources (AKA SDRAGNs) from Radio Galaxy Zoo and Hubble Zoo Gems program. 🔭🧪 (gonna keep trying untiI I get this #astrosci thing right) blog.galaxyzoo.org/2026/03/14/h...
Screenshot of the new, AladinLite-based and radio-focussed ATNF SkyViewer. The main inset showd the RACS-low 887 MHz image of the head-tail Corkscrew Galaxy and the neighbouring wide-angle tail (WAT) radio galaxy in the cluster Abell 3627.
Welcome to the ATNF SkyViewer: www.atnf.csiro.au/research/sky... * Enjoy 🤩 #radioastronomy #astronomy #AstroSci
Meet Austin MacMaster, our GradHighlight for February 2026! Austin is a PhD student at the University of Manitoba studying supernova remnants 🔭 Make sure to check out his research here: casca.ca?page_id=22630
#astronomy #astrosci
Time for an #NewAthenaNuggets #astrosci
Exploring ultra-fast outflows in active galactic nuclei with NewAthena , by Dr. Yerong Xu - Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC)
Read it:
🔗 www.the-athena-x-ray-observatory.eu/en/node/992
Some context—even with this drop in altitude projections still have HST viable until >2030 🔭 #astrosci
X-ray absorption has enabled a probe of the photoionised gas close to seven gamma-ray bursts, revealing their origin in star-forming regions and providing additional evidence that long GRBs originate in collapsars. Thakur et al.: http://dlvr.it/TR10f4 #astrosci
Hello everyone!
I interviewed Assist. Prof. Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf from Michigan State University recently. He has a quite intriguing career with graduate works, observatories, supernovae, and also computational metascience. Check it out >>
youtu.be/6kq09EICVZk?...
#astrosci
Paper day: I am extremely happy to announce our major discovery concerning the mysterious emergence of the first massive galaxies when the Universe was only 10% its current age:
www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressrelease...
#radioastronomy #extragalactic #astrosci 📡☄️🔭🧪
I have a post-doctoral opening in my group. If you are working in one of the following areas: Galaxy Formation, Science with the 21cm line, Gravitation Lensing, then please drop a message.
#Astronomy
#Cosmology
#AstroSci
The formation of glycylglycine, a simple peptide molecule, is possible under non-aqueous interstellar conditions, according to laboratory experiments. Thus complex organics with biological relevance may pre-date planetary accretion. http://dlvr.it/TQnQwJ #astrosci
Meet our first GradHighlight of 2026: Breanna, a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria! 🔭 Breanna uses JWST data to study the star formation rate and efficiency in molecular clouds 🌌 Check out Breanna's research here: casca.ca?page_id=22566
#astronomy #astrosci
Another proud supervisor moment today 🤩 Alex has their awesome paper out on the arXiv about what sets bar rotation in the cosmological context: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20941
Alex finds that galaxies with lower stellar mass and lower baryon-dominance have slower bars ✨ 🔭🧪 #astrosci #astro
False three color image using MIRI F1000W and F1500W filters (10 and 15 microns wavelength). At the center is the white dwarf and surrounding it are a variety of background objects with different apparent colors. A circle encompasses a projected separation of 200 au. The image is oriented North up East left.
A graphic showing the spectral energy distribution of the white dwarf WD 0644+025. The top panel shows flux density in Jy as a function of wavelength in microns. The 15 micron photometry point is significantly higher than the predicted photosphere brightness, nearly 8x brighter than the uncertainty of the measurement. This is indicative of dust or a planet.
New MIRI Excesses Around Degenerates (MEAD) survey result! @sabrinapoulsen.bsky.social leads a paper announcing an IR excess around the (newly) discovered 0.95 Msun metal line white dwarf WD 0644+025! ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026arXi... 🔭 #astrosci #exoplanets
Three histograms showing the eccentricity versus count of planets for three mass ranges. Smaller Jovians have a decay from e=0.0, brown dwarfs have a flat eccentricity distribution, and the super-Jovians have a distinct peak at e of around 0.3
Very interesting paper by Blunt+ on “Evidence for a Peak at ~0.3 in the Eccentricity Distribution of
Typical Super-Jovian Exoplanets” showing this e for planets between 0.1 and 4.5 au. Giant impacts, scattering with super-Jovians? #exoplanets #astrodon #astrosci @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social
Very proud of PhD student Thomas Tomlinson, who's awesome paper is out on the arXiv today, on bar-induced substructures in stellar haloes 🤩🔭 #astrosci
arxiv.org/abs/2601.14409
