Tori Bonidie

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Two satellite proposals threaten dark and quiet skies worldwide Giant mirrors in space to create sunlight at night and an AI data center made up of 1-million satellites are undergoing regulatory approval. How did we get here?

From Tori Bonidie and Magnus L’Argent: Giant mirrors in space to create sunlight at night and an AI data center made up of 1-million satellites are undergoing regulatory approval. How did we get here? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
astrobites.org/2026/02/26/reflect-orbital-ai-data-center/

From Tori Bonidie @toribonidie.bsky.social : Was Venus involved in a catastrophic hit-and-run? Read this astrobite to find out! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Why academic freedom is a heated topic in Pitt grad union negotiations As the University of Pittsburgh embarks on union negotiations with graduate students, bargaining over the concept of academic freedom has been contentious.

Unions typically bargain for pay, vacation, health insurance and safety. At Pitt, unionized graduate students want academic freedom protections too, but the university has largely rejected their demands.

Big Changes to the NSF’s Graduate Fellowship Mean Big Problems In this bite, the authors discuss recent changes to the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help.

In this bite, the Astrobites authors discuss recent changes to the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/10/04/n...

Planetary Hide and Seek Astrobites reports on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems.

Tori Bonidie reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems. aasnova.org/2025/10/01/p... 🔭

Dark Matter Detectives Are Searching for Tiny Black Holes It was first proposed that black holes could form directly from the small, random density fluctuations inherent to the chaotic primordial universe. The studies from which the idea emerged — pioneered ...

Have you ever wondered how we might go about finding microscopic black holes from the dawn of time?

Check out my new article for @supercluster.com — my first published piece of science writing outside of @astrobites.bsky.social! ✨⚫️🔭

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The official number of exoplanets has surpassed 6,000! And you can access data on all 6,007 of them right here at IPAC 📈 🪐

Watch the video & read all about the center of the exoplanet universe (also known as NExScI!) here:
www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/the-nas...

VLT/CRIRES+ observations of warm Neptune WASP-107 b: Molecular detections and challenges in ground-based transmission spectroscopy of cooler and cloudy exoplanets Atmospheres of transiting exoplanets can be studied spectroscopically using space-based or ground-based observations. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so there are benefits to both approache...

Do you love WASP-107 b? Do you love making use of *both* ground VLT + space JWST obs to detect molecules in a "warm" (Teq<800K) #exoplanet in transmission, even in a crazy confusing cloudy atmosphere?!

🚨 It's PAPER* DAY! Which means #scicomm thread!

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*pre-print!

arxiv.org/abs/2508.18964

Strange New Plasma Using data from NASA’s Juno mission, the authors of today’s paper have discovered plasma conditions so peculiar they don't exist anywhere else we've ever explored in the solar system, giving rise to a...

From Tori Bonidie @toribonidie.bsky.social : Using data from NASA’s Juno mission, the today’s authors have discovered plasma conditions that don’t exist anywhere else we’ve ever explored in the solar system, giving rise to a whole new type of plasma wave mode. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/08/23/s...

Want to learn what 5 nights of high res emission spectra of an ultra hot jupiter can get ya? Come on down to my poster at #exoclimesVII today 🤪

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Your Senators have until tomorrow to request robust levels of funding for NASA, NSF, and the DOE Office of Science - use our easy form to request that they do so today!

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From Tori Bonidie @toribonidie.bsky.social: This astrobite will summarize the recent constraints of biosignatures on K2-18 b, answer important questions like “are there aliens?” and “how bad does this biosignature smell?”, and discuss some critiques it has drawn. 🔭✨☄️
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It’s Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off All Your H2O Was Venus always a formidable hellscape, or did it once have a temperate climate with liquid water on its surface?

From Tori Bonidie: Was Venus always a formidable hellscape, or did it once have a temperate climate with liquid water on its surface? 🔭✨
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Life is Like a Box of Potential Biosignatures The authors of today’s paper put forth theoretical models of how habitable exoplanets might appear to the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) using the molecules present in the Earth’s atmosphere fr…

From @toribonidie.bsky.social: The authors of today’s paper put forth theoretical models of how habitable exoplanets might appear to the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) using the molecules present in the Earth’s atmosphere from earlier eons 🔭✨️

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The Case of Shrinking Planets The authors of today’s papers investigate whether photoevaporation or core-powered mass loss is the more likely culprit for the exoplanet radius gap.

Let's investigate the case of shrinking exoplanets!
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Astrobites Statement on the Educational Siege in Gaza The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our c…

From the Astrobites collaboration: The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our colleagues. 🔭

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Can Planets Survive Being Eaten? The authors of today’s paper present a detection of a planet orbiting around its middle-aged host star – a star that was predicted to eat any planets in its way. Now the question remains, how does …

Using my first Bluesky post to promote my first Astrobites post!