A Hard Look at a Soft-State X-ray Binary Cygnus X-1 recently made the long-awaited switch between hard and soft spectral states. What can IXPE observations tell us about this transition? aasnova.org/2024/08/05/a-h… Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

200 Millionth Anniversary Gift: A Necklace Made of Stars astrobites's Annelia Anderson reports on the aftermath of a massive active galactic nucleus outburst that left behind a string of star formation. aasnova.org/2024/08/06/200…

The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, 15 Years Later The venerable Hubble Space Telescope recently revisited the famous Ultra-Deep Field. How has this patch of sky changed since it was first photographed at infrared wavelengths? aasnova.org/2024/08/07/the… Oskar Klein Centre

Plotting the Course, a Billion Miles Away NASA is going to send a robot to Uranus someday. When it gets there, how close should it fly to the surface? aasnova.org/2024/08/09/plo…

Featured Image: A 5D Map of the Milky Way Data made mesmerizing: check out this swirling visualization of 170 million stars in the Milky Way. aasnova.org/2024/08/12/fea… U of T News

Teamwork Makes the Intensity-Mapping Dream Work astrobites's Delaney Dunne reports on research that brings together data from multiple wavelengths to make a detection of distant 21-cm radiation. aasnova.org/2024/08/13/tea…

A Baby Planet Reveals Its Hiding Place Researchers find even more evidence for planets forming in the disk around TW Hydrae, the nearest protoplanetary disk to Earth. aasnova.org/2024/08/14/a-b… NAOJ

Monthly Roundup: Rings, Chains, and Bubbles From planetary systems to colliding galaxies, the universe is full of intricate structures. This month’s roundup examines where three vastly different types of structures come from. aasnova.org/2024/08/16/mon…

The Quest to Watch a Supernova in Real Time Recent upgrades to a powerful neutrino detector may help us spot future nearby supernovae before they burst onto the scene in visible light. aasnova.org/2024/08/26/the…

Black Hole Fireworks: Tidal Disruption Events Light Up Supermassive Black Holes astrobites's Will Golay reports on the radio signals from stars being ripped apart by supermassive black holes. aasnova.org/2024/08/27/bla…

Finding a Friend for a Hot Jupiter Hot Jupiter TOI-1480 b just got a new companion. What does this mean for how hot Jupiters form? aasnova.org/2024/08/28/fin… Lund Observatory LU

The Odds of the Unthinkable An asteroid named Apophis is almost definitely going to miss Earth during a close flyby in 2029. But could it be diverted onto a more dangerous path through a collision with a smaller asteroid before then? aasnova.org/2024/08/30/the…

Can We Please Have the Black Hole Origin Story? astrobites's Archana Aravindan reports on a hunt for intermediate-mass black holes and what this search tells us about how black holes formed in the early universe. aasnova.org/2024/09/03/can…

Welcome to AAS Media Fellow Lexi Gault and Farewell to Ben Cassese Please join us in saying farewell to our 2022–2024 AAS Media Fellow and welcoming our new Fellow to the team! aasnova.org/2024/09/04/wel… American Astronomical Society (AAS)

Complex Composition: The Origins of J1010+2358 Once thought to be a pure descendant of one the universe’s first stars, new research on star J1010+2358 uncovers a more complex history. aasnova.org/2024/09/06/com… Università di Firenze ESO

Homing In on Host Galaxies of Fast Radio Bursts Researchers have detected about a thousand powerful yet fleeting radio signals called fast radio bursts. What do the home galaxies of these bursts tell us about where they come from? aasnova.org/2024/09/09/hom… CMU Mellon College of Science

It’s An Eyeball Summer, and Other Weird K/M-Dwarf Habitable Climate Tales astrobites's Diana Solano-Oropeza | free palestine 🇵🇸! reports on the climates of planets orbiting stars that are smaller, cooler, and more common than Sun-like stars. aasnova.org/2024/09/10/its…

Evaporating Stars, Magnetars, and Bumpy Supernova Light Curves New research shows that unusual binary systems containing a magnetar and an unlucky companion star can explain some bumps in supernova light curves. aasnova.org/2024/09/11/eva… Monash Astrophysics OzGrav

Hunting for a Target on the Fly New Horizons’ next target beyond Pluto was discovered mid-flight in a search that forged a path for present-day planetary science. A recent publication reviews this hunt and tells the story of this remarkable discovery. aasnova.org/2024/09/13/hun…

Featured Image: Slime Mold Shows the Way A new algorithm inspired by the intricate filaments of slime mold connects galaxies and reveals the structure of the cosmic web. aasnova.org/2024/09/16/fea… NMSU Astronomy NMSU News