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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Astro BlueSky: Be my boss! Penn State Astro needs a new department head and I need YOUR help to find them. Who is your ideal department head? Who can maintain a vibrant, collegial, politics-free atmosphere that supports all members (undergrads, grads, staff, all kinds of faculty)? 🧪

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 26/09/2026

Choose your favorite NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory palette! 🎨✨ Rubin sees a wider range of colors than our eyes do, and when mapped to colors we do see: 🔴 Redder galaxies are farther. 🔵 Blue stars are hotter. 🌈 In the Trifid & Lagoon Nebulae, pink traces hydrogen while blue reveals hot stars. 🔭🧪

Dense starfield with faint clouds of interstellar dust, filled with white, orange, and blue stars. A few brighter blue and orange stars stand out. A horizontal palette bar at the bottom shows blue, gray, orange, brown, and cream swatches.

A large pink-red nebula cloud with dark dust lanes at center-left and a smaller blue-pink nebula upper right in a dense, tan Milky Way star field. Bottom palette strip shows pink, slate blue, orange, tan, and brown swatches.

Deep field packed with faint galaxies and stars. A few bright blue and orange foreground stars stand out among thousands of galaxies of varying shapes, sizes, and colors. A color palette strip at bottom shows black, dark blue, beige, tan, and gray swatches.

$Deep field packed with faint galaxies and stars. Bright blue and orange foreground stars show diffraction spikes. Large elliptical galaxies cluster at left and right amid thousand of other galaxies of varying shapes, sizes, and colors. A color palette strip runs along the bottom showing tan, light blue, bright blue, red, and black.$

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CIERA @nuciera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Congrats to CIERA's Adam Miller, named a 2026 NSF-Simonyi Scholar, one of just 24 nationwide! The distinction recognizes contributions to Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time. bit.ly/3TPxVQY

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CIERA's Adam Miller named NSF-Simonyi Scholar

Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics member Adam Miller, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been named a 202...

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 18/09/2026

🔭 #AAS249 Plenary Speaker: Yao-Yuan Mao (茅耀元) Assistant Professor at Univ of Utah, Mao studies low-mass galaxies — developing new observational methods to find these faint systems and using them to probe galaxy evolution & the nature of dark matter. Early reg closes 12 Oct: aas.org/meetings/aas...

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Jonathan Fortney @jjfplanet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*8* postdoctoral positions in atmospheric physics, from the Earth to Exoplanets: aas.org/jobregister/... This is part of the Multiscale Physics of Clouds Across Planetary Atmospheres collaboration, funded by the Simons Foundation, led by Prof. @astrocaroline.bsky.social!

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Postdoctoral Researchers — Multiscale Physics of Clouds Across Planetary Atmospheres | American Astronomical Society

The Multiscale Physics of Clouds Across Planetary Atmospheres collaboration, funded by the Simons Foundation, is seeking 8 postdoctoral researchers to develop new approaches to understanding clouds ac...

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 16/09/2026

📣 We're looking for the next fellows in Space Science! The 2026 deadline for the #ESAResearchFellowship in Space Science Programme is fast approaching. Apply until 21 September here 👉 jobs.esa.int/job/Villanue... Details 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/space-sc... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Congratulations to Emily Levesque on becoming the new AAS journals editor-in-chief! Emily succeeds Ethan Vishniac, who is awesome and did a wonderful job. Emily is also awesome and I'm sure will also do a wonderful job! Great choices by AAS! aas.org/press/emily-...

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Emily Levesque Named Next Editor in Chief of AAS Journals | American Astronomical Society

Emily Levesque (University of Washington) has been named the next Editor in Chief of the prestigious suite of AAS journals, beginning her term in August 2027.

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Prof. Carl E. Fields 💥 @carlnotsagan.github.io · 26/08/2026

first day of class for me. teaching undergrad stellar astro again! was great to meet all of our incredible seniors who will likely be applying to your programs for next year! you can be certain they will know how to use MESA! 💥

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Black In Astro @blackinastro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Congratulations to our Undergraduate and Graduate Research Showcase winners and thank you to everyone who participated this year 😊😊

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

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It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 19/05/2026

We need you to help classify shapes and features of galaxies detected by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🔭🧪 Join Rubin scientists and the @galaxyzoo.org team on @zooniverse.bsky.social in the new citizen science project, Galaxy Zoo: Rubin 🌌 www.zooniverse.org/projects/zoo...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

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Your Guide to NASA's Budget

How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/04/2026

THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME DEBUTED AT #9 ON THE INDIE BESTSELLER LIST!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!! What I love most about this is that it means people are supporting indie bookstores ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ www.bookweb.org/sites/defaul...

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 15/04/2026

Members of the AAS & the American Association of Physics Teachers are on the Hill today to advocate for science and STEM education funding! Join them by requesting a meeting with your local congressional office: aas.org/posts/news/2... #WeekofAction #SaveScience 🔭

AAS and AAPT members gather near the US Capitol to advocate for STEM funding.

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 14/04/2026

The Annie Jump Cannon Award is presented for outstanding research & promise for future research by a postdoctoral woman researcher. Know someone deserving? Submit nominations by 30 June (self-noms allowed). aas.org/grants-and-p... 🔭 📷 AAS President Dara Norman & 2025 winner Maya Fishbach

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 03/04/2026

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

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 🔭

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Among the firsts of Artemis II, it will be the first time a person of color and Black astronaut (Victor Glover), first woman astronaut (Christina Koch), and first Canadian and non-US citizen astronaut (Jeremy Hansen) travel beyond low Earth orbit and to the Moon. 🚀

NASA image of the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission (left to right): NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman (seated), Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. From https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-names-astronauts-to-next-moon-mission-first-crew-under-artemis/

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/03/2026

👇🏽 great example of how the NYT continues to — has never stopped — engaging in platforming anti-Black, genocidal rhetoric and how it is so normalized that it is not discussed in those terms (not a criticism of Victor, just noting the way our cultural vocabulary shifts for discussions anti-Blackness)

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

OSU astro coffee was so fun today! We talked about @clairelamman.bsky.social's Hawking radiation comic, OSU undergrad Mya Smedley presented on how lessons from SpongeBob (kindness, empathy, and passion) can be applied to astronomy, & we saw new XRISM results on M82! arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24674 🔭

Projector screen from OSU astro coffee today during undergrad Mya Smedley's presentation on applying lessons from SpongeBob to our pursuits of astronomy. Title of the slide is "KEP (kindness, empathy, and passion), SpongeBob, and Combatting Groupthink and Apathy". Text says "question of the day: how can we collectively be more like SpongeBob SquarePants? Be vocal in your community never be neutral: CARE; Understanding diversity is unity; Being present in everyday life".

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Prof. Carl E. Fields 💥 @carlnotsagan.github.io · 27/03/2026

very grateful to have finally made it in person to visit OSU since my virtual Price Prize talk in 2020. thanks to everyone for the invitation and especially @ohdearz.bsky.social for hosting! also love to brag about my awesome grad students!

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Honored to have @carlnotsagan.github.io visit OSU today and give an outstanding colloquium on next generation simulations of massive star death & predictions for multi-messenger signals! 🔭🧪⚛️

Picture of Prof. Carl Fields presenting his OSU astronomy colloquium. He stands in front of a projector screen with a slide titled the "era of 3D core-collapse simulations, showing five renderings of explosions from different references.

Prof. Carl Fields shows paths forward with the PHOEBUS code led by Arizona grad student Logan White.

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 23/03/2026

#AAS248 The Society's FAMOUS Travel Grants program helps members from historically underrepresented groups attend AAS meetings. Grant requests for the summer meeting (14-18 June 2026) are due by 16 April. aas.org/grants-and-p... 🔭

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András Gáspár @andrasgaspar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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.

A Table showing the number of positions posted at AAS job-registed for various categories.

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 12/03/2026

📢 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

Collage of participants from previous LSST-DA data science fellowship program years.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Had fun at #APSSummit26 receiving the 2026 Edward A. Bouchet Award, celebrating with the other APS awardees, attending the @rescorp.org reception, and meeting the 2010 APS Bouchet awardee, Dr. Herman White! 🔭🧪

Laura Lopez standing on a stage with the APS president to receive her award. A big screen behind them with colorful lighting shows "2026 Edward A. Bouchet Award, Laura A. Lopez, The Ohio State University"

Selfie of three APS awardees sitting in an auditorium: left is Dr. Christina Wang (winner of the Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics), middle is Dr. Elena Pinetti (winner of the Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics), and right is Dr. Laura Lopez (Edward A. Bouchet Award).

Picture of Dr. Herman White (2010 winner of the Edward Bouchet Award) and Dr. Laura Lopez at the RCSA reception.

Image of the APS Bouchet Award certificate. Reads: 'APS American Physical Society Edward A. Bouchet Award. Recognizes a distinguished minority physicist who had made significant contributions to physics research and the advancement of underrepresented minority scientists. The 2026 award is presented to Laura A. Lopez for pioneering contributions to X-ray astronomy, including foundational studies of supernova remnants, compact objects, and stellar feedback in galaxies, and for transformative leadership in advancing equity and inclusion in physics through innovative mentorship programs, national advocacy, and unwavering support for students from historically marginalized communities."

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 16/03/2026

Help us ensure a strong year for US science. The deadline for Congress to sign this letter in support of robust funding for DOE Office of Science is 18 March. Take two minutes to urge your Rep to sign on today. aas.org/urge-your-re... 🔭 @policy.aas.org

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 27/02/2026

🎥 2026 AAS Journals Author Series Update! Frank Timmes, AAS Journals Scientific Editor, shares the “why” behind the series — why we create these videos, what the metrics show, how we reached 500+ videos, and how featured articles are selected. 🔭 youtu.be/1_U5WsSXzmU @publishing.aas.org

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AAS Journal Author Series - 2026 Edition

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Dreia Carrillo @dreiacarrillo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Finally made a Blue Sky account! Also yay read our paper on the destruction of my favorite galaxy!

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Michael Zingale @michaelzingale.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

computational science postdoc fellowship here at Stony Brook, through the SUNY Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth Plus (PRODiG Plus) apply.interfolio.com/179315

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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

such a joy to have given a talk at the Liberty Science Center last week on the CMB + Adele : ) lsc.org/news-and-soc...

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Exploring the CMB With Help From Adele with Dr. Huei Sears

Join Dr. Huei Sears for a Space Talk on exploring the Cosmic Microwave Background at LSC After Dark.

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Research Corporation for Science Advancement @rescorp.org · 21/01/2026

RCSA, @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social, the Leinweber Foundation, and Kevin Wells are funding the research of 7 collaborative teams in the 2nd year of #Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST, a 3-year initiative to ignite discovery with the @vrubinobs.bsky.social's Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

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2025 Scialog: Early Science with the LSST Awards

RCSA, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Leinweber Foundation, and Kevin Wells are awarding $1,254,000 total to support the research of seven collaborative teams of scientists from colleges, universit...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/01/2026

Do you ever just stop and think about how great Charles Yu's writing is? Anyway the first chapter of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME is called "How to Live Safely in a Science Factual Universe" -- iykyk Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

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Prof. Carl E. Fields 💥 @carlnotsagan.github.io · 17/12/2025

final grades: posted! it’s been so inspiring working with our AMAZING senior undergraduate students this semester in my theoretical astro (stars) class @stewardobservatory.bsky.social. looking forward to hear about all the great things they go on to accomplish — admit them to your grad programs! 💥

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Prof. Carl E. Fields 💥 @carlnotsagan.github.io · 22/11/2025

some excellent talks to finish off day 2 of the ASTRO sessions here at the NSBP/NSHP 2025 Joint Conference! #nsbp #nshp

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Prof. Carl E. Fields 💥 @carlnotsagan.github.io · 10/11/2025

i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)! i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social! apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate I Computational Stellar Astrophysics (Steward Observatory) | American Astronomical Society

The University of Arizona (U of A) Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory (SO) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will work with Professor Ca...

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Come join us at a fantastic physics department in the great PNW! The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Physics)

The Department of Physics at Oregon State University (OSU) is seeking an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure/tenure-track faculty position.Any hiri...

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James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 09/10/2025

Glad to see an amazing astronomer on the list of MacArthur awards this year - congrats to Kareem El-Badry! 🔭 www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

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Kareem El-Badry

Expanding our knowledge of binary star systems, black holes, and other wonders of the universe.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Enrico Fermi, one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century, was born #OTD in 1901. While most physicists focus on either experiment or theory, Fermi excelled at both. Now, estimate how many new physicists will be born today. 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢 (1/n) Image: New York Public Library

A black and white photo of Enrico Fermi standing at a blackboard, explaining a scattering problem. He is wearing a charcoal wool three-piece suit, with a striped tie and a light-colored shirt. Fermi is looking to the right of the photographer, smiling at someone in the audience.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Astronomy 🔭 and physics ⚛️ GRFP applications are due Nov 14! Only seniors and 1st-year grad students can apply now (no second years).

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 24/09/2025

Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off. aasnova.org/2025/09/24/k... 🔭🧪

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Kicking Neutron Stars from the Nest

Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off.

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