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How Ancient Chinese Solar Eclipse Records Helped to Determine the Earth’s Rotation Rate
Post-eclipse blues? Today’s paper uses solar eclipse observations made thousands of years ago to track how Earth’s rotation rate has slowed over time.
How Can We Clean up Space Debris
After launching satellites into Earth orbit for the last 70 years, we’ve ended up with a lot of space debris in our orbital space. Now it’s time to clean it all up!
Astrobites at APS April 2024: Looking Ahead as We Look Far Through the JWST
Astrobites offers coverage of the Physical Review Invited Session: “Looking Ahead as we Look Far through the JWST.” #APSApril
Astrobites at April APS 2024: Day 4
We report on Day 4 of the 2024 April APS Meeting!
The photocopied “sunburst” from the early Universe
Find out how astronomers have used the brightest known (to date) gravitationally lensed galaxy to learn about the early Universe.
A New H0pe for the Hubble Constant?
The Hubble Tension is one of the great mysteries of modern cosmology…can today’s paper help us solve it?
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Astrobites at APS April 2024: Looking Ahead as We Look Far Through the JWST
Astrobites offers coverage of the Physical Review Invited Session: “Looking Ahead as we Look Far through the JWST.” #APSApril
Astrobites at April APS 2024: Day 4
We report on Day 4 of the 2024 April APS Meeting!
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The Rainbow Village at AAS: An Astrobites Recap
The Rainbow Village at AAS provided a gathering place for people of color in astronomy at the recent AAS meeting in New Orleans. Today’s post looks back at how things went, and where the concept will go in the future!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Karen Meech
Today we interview planetary astronomer Dr. Karen Meech from the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi, for her Dannie Heineman Prize Lecture at #AAS243!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Professor Jamie Bock
Today we interview cosmologist Prof. Jamie Bock from Caltech/JPL for his Plenary Lecture at #AAS243!