Comet NEOWISE is visible to skywatchers during the month of July — but what are the best times to catch a glimpse and where should you look? Get the details: go.nasa.gov/2Zx7ala

Check out "The Search for Life in Space" tonight at 6:30 CDT (7:30 EDT) by joining the watch party SHIELD is co-hosting with CPU2AL!

Excited to announce that our paper, on the "Multi-Wavelength Variability of BL Lacertae Measured with High Time Resolution," has been accepted to #ApJ American Astronomical Society (AAS) !!

The cover of Nature Astronomy this week headlines the paper that is the basis of SHIELD! The shape of the heliosphere is a long debated topic in space physics and our center aims to address this question.

.Nature Astronomy's July issue & cover art features a new model of our solar system’s protective bubble, the heliosphere. This model was developed by Boston University, Harvard University, Univ. of Maryland & Michigan Engineering astronomers in collaboration with NASA. Details ➡️ bu.edu/articles/2020/…

Astronomers: Please RT/like and help spread the word. Inviting Black/Indigenous/Latinx women that are Astro grad students, postdocs, research scientists, or faculty to join the League of Underrepresented Minoritized Astronomers (LUMA). sites.bu.edu/cce/luma

Congratulations to Dr. Connor Robinson! Connor Robinson is my first PhD student and he just successfully defended his thesis on "Accretion Variability in Young Low-Mass Stellar Systems." Next, Connor will be heading to Amherst on a fellowship. We will miss him at BU Astronomy Dept!

Congrats to Dr. Marc Kornbleuth (Marc Kornbleuth) for sucessfully defending his PhD thesis!

"We need to understand how other bubbles are shaped, the nature of them, in order to understand the development of life." merav opher discusses what we can learn from the shape of Earth's protective bubble. James Crowley Newsweek BU Astronomy Dept spr.ly/6017GmjBX

.Hubble, the paparazzi of space’s hottest stars (& coldest comets)! This image of #NEOWISE is the first time a comet of this brightness has been photographed at such resolution after this close of a pass by the Sun. More about the shot 📸 go.nasa.gov/3j3JhJe

How is a star born? ⭐️ The universe needs 3⃣ ingredients: gravity, turbulence & a magnetic field. We've been probing the galaxy for years to understand each factor's role – and astronomers just uncovered a new piece of the puzzle. ➡️ bu.edu/articles/2020/… Nature Astronomy

Phosphine is to Venus as methane is to Mars? 20 parts-per-million of phosphine have been detected in the temperate clouds of Venus, and its source is not evident. Greaves et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Is there life floating in the clouds of Venus? bbc.in/3keqtYc

Very excited to see this work led by Joseph Guidry & Zachary Vanderbosch on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2012.00035). Say hello to 5⃣ new white dwarfs orbited by shredded asteroids/planetesimals, causing long (left) and short (right) transits. Before this we only knew of 2 (the 2 at top)! 1/5

Emanating from the center of our Milky Way Galaxy are two bubbles made solely of powerful gamma rays. pst.cr/S2wjD

Fantastic talk from Dr. Knicole Colón to BU Astronomy Dept about several extreme exoplanet systems, and how both TESS have and JWST will better understand these weird worlds. Plus lots of great plots by Ethan Kruse, looks at all those nearby planets TESS has found!

So happy and proud to congratulate Caeley Pittman (@caelwave) on being awarded the @NSFGRFP!!! Caeley is a BU Astronomy Dept grad student in my research group. She will be investigating how young stars grow though the accretion of material from their protoplanetary disks.

💫 THREAD: Let's talk for a second about one of the weirdest stars in our Galaxy. We don't have long -- it's moving so fast it's escaping the Milky Way! It's also the most metal-rich star known, a hunk of neon and oxygen hurtling through space, SHRAPNEL FROM A SUPERNOVA! (1/9)

It's a 🐦, it's a 🛩️, it's a ⭐? BU astronomer JJ Hermes and research collaborators analyzed NASA light data from a piece of supernova shrapnel—a star called LP 40−365—for clues about where it came from. Full details ➡️ bu.edu/articles/2021/… BU Arts & Sciences

"What we’re seeing are the byproducts of violent nuclear reactions that happen when a star blows itself up." - JJ Hermes BU Astronomy Dept spr.ly/6012yXEVn