From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2025/11/10/f...

From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : You think stars form quietly? Think again. In the early universe, galaxies were packed with star-forming clumps. Some disrupted quickly, while others survived. Today’s paper reveals which lived and which died young. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/10/14/c...

From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social - Dust Curve Drama: JWST Reveals No One Law Fits All! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/07/01/d...

Writing a scientific paper as a first author for the first time is so so daunting, intimidating, terrifying 🥺

But it doesn't have to be this way.

What are some tools, support, encouraging frameworks that professors, mentors and advisors share with their students to write their first papers? ✍️🏼🙏🏼🔭

🔭 Dr. @yasharakrami.bsky.social ((IFT) UAM- CSIC) joined us for an AURORA Astro Webinar on one of the most fascinating questions in physics: what is the shape of the Universe?
Could its topology leave subtle imprints on the cosmic microwave background?
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/-_6ZEnp4UX8

We’re happy to invite you to our next AURORA Astro Webinar! Dr. Irene Shivaei from the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) in Madrid will be giving a talk over Zoom. We hope you can join us! Send us a direct message to get the link, or join us in person in the Pierce Observing Room.

Thinking about teaching after grad school?
Check out this great talk by Dr. Christina Manzano King (UCR alum!) on launching a teaching career at community colleges—she covers everything from portfolios to interviews to tenure.
Super practical and encouraging.

youtu.be/hoHFrfqz61Q

🔭 An Almost Everything Sky

Image Credit & Copyright: Koen van Barneveld

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25042...

From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : What do you get when baby galaxies crash and light up in UV? A surprising early signature of cosmic dust. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/21/dust-ahead-of-schedule-uv-bump/

There's a #LunarEclipse tonight! If you're in the dark region here, and if you have a view of the Moon at the right time, you'll see the eclipse. Check www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna... for more info and timings for the eclipse in your location. (Here on the East Coast, totality peaks around 3am.)

From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : A tiny galaxy, barely metal-enriched, is packed with massive stars. Could it hold clues to the universe’s first stars? ✨🔭☄️
astrobites.org/2025/03/10/e...

From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : Today’s bite explores how JWST reveals a surprising dust curve in a distant galaxy, challenging what we know about cosmic dust! 🔭✨
astrobites.org/2025/02/18/a...

Nights of Wonder.

A -40C evening of crisp beauty under the heavens, exploring with my friend Paul Zizka.

#yellowknife #astro #astrophotography