Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has charged authors nothing; costs are covered (and more, as the commercial publisher makes a profit and also...

Consider the following papers: DZ65: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965SvA.....8..854D @ARTICLE { VDashevskiiYZeldovich65a , AUTHOR ...

For a while back in the 1990s, A&A published some things (such as appendices to papers) ONLY electronically. However, ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr doesn't seem...

A few weeks ago, fellow moderator Jonathan suggested that I "live-post" from a conference, so I'll do so this week. He was actually thinking about another...

At most of the last few conferences I've been to, including this one,=20 there has been a talk pointing out that primordial black holes could make=20 up most...

There has been much discussion, including some here in this newgroup, regarding the "tension" between various measurements of the Hubble constant. In general,...

The concluding talk on open problems in cosmology was given by Joe Silk. I'll mention below a few things I found particularly interesting. Although the...

They do have a rather strange numbering scheme. There are 12 "issues" per year, and the volume number is the same as the year number, and really is 4...

Some journals require upright Greek letters for constants as opposed to variables, for example $\upi$ when used to denote 3.14159... as opposed to a variable...

The paper http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965SvA.....8..854D @ARTICLE { VDashevskiiYZeldovich65a , AUTHOR = "V. M. Dashevskii and...

I'm now at a cosmology conference: https://indico.cern.ch/event/736594/overview One reason to go to a conference is to hear about interesting things one...

Looking down on the Milky Way from the north galactic pole, our galaxy rotates clockwise. For a planet in the solar system, the corresponding rotation would...

I found this just by chance, so perhaps not all are aware of it: http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2641-new-version-if-the-mnras-latex-package QUOTE ...

In arXiv:astro-ph/0404319, Lake introduces a quantity called alpha and points out that it essentially measures the ratio of the value of the cosmological...

The Wikipedia page for MOND https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics seems like a good introduction to the subject. In particular, it...

In article , James Goetz writes: Lord Kelvin's prediction of heat death...

It seems that some university libraries are in the process of getting rid of journals, books, and so on, at least those which are not available electronically....

In article , Lawrence Crowell writes: "The scientists carefully...

In article , Charles Francis writes: There seems to be some issue with SN1997ff...

In article , "Stupendous_Man" writes: Philip Helbig wrote: However, this doesn't take...