astrobites 49
- Will you use Astrobites in your course this Fall?
- Happy Birthday Astrobites--a look back at our first four years
- AAS digital switch a long time coming?
- Entering the Matrix: Exploring the formation history of a universe on your laptop
- Has IBEX detected eddies in the spacetime continuum?
- Can you hide a super-massive black hole?
- The Prisoner's Dilemma: A new solution to an age old problem
- How to submit a paper
- A new tool to investigate a century old mystery
- Astronomy software developer Bill Joye on ds9 7.0
- The first detected signature of dark matter annihilation?
- Discussing Planetary Resources with Sara Seager
- An observation of the cosmic evolution of planets?
- A credit rating agency for physics?
- John Johnson on the ExoLab
- John Johnson on Undergraduate Research
- John Johnson on Graduate Admissions
- Code you can use: the MCMC Hammer
- NGC 4261's off-kilter globular cluster population
- Concluding 1 year of Astrobites
- An update on the atmosphere of super-Earth GJ1214b
- Untouched gas in the early universe
- Dwarf Spheroidals: Where did all the metals go?
- The consequences of stellar rotation
- Getting friendly with Pan-STARRS: identifying galaxy clusters
- A planetary nebula with serious pollution problems
- How did the universe get so dusty?
- A black hole and a neutron star walk into a gravitationally bound system...
- A day in the lives of astronomy grad students
- A new GRB-Supernova
- What makes more stars: bars or mergers?
- Using the Moon as a scientific instrument
- BOSS's 3D map of the early universe
- What lives far outside the Small Magellanic Cloud?
- All about bulges (and consequences for galaxy evolution)
- Do galaxies line up?
- How to use SAO ds9 to examine astronomical images
- Do stars throw snowballs?
- The Faintest Hint of an Exploding Star
- Avi Loeb and Freeman Dyson on the future of the universe
- Astronomical methods for the year 1 trillion
- Simulating a star at the brink of explosion
- How does chemical composition affect star formation?
- Stellar variability and exoplanet detection
- Are star clusters simple or not?
- Finding needles in the cosmological haystack with the SZ effect
- Nature vs. nurture in the evolution of elliptical galaxies
- How to simulate a fluid
- What happens in the vast voids between stars in galaxies like the Milky Way?