Below is a list of blogs written by professional astronomers on astronomy content. Please feel free to edit this page to add or remove your blog. Or leave a comment. And maybe help with the organization into categories.
Resources
News, views and personal blogs:
- 13.7: Cosmos and Culture - including Adam Frank
- A Curious Mind - Mario Livio
- Alice in Galaxyland
- Amy's Next Adventure
- Angry Astronomer - Jon Voisey
- Astronomy Cafe - Sten Odenwald; online since 1995; FAQs; Blogs; Cosmology
- Astronomy Faculty Teaching Lounge - Tim Slater
- Astronomy Magazine Blog
- Astrophysics Girl - Hannah Dalgleish, lists many funded astronomy opportunities
- Background Dominated - Dan Wik
- Benne Holwerda
- The e-Astronomer - news and commentary
- Heavy Metallicity - Danny Barringer
- In the Dark - Telescoper
- Jonathan's Space Report - space launch news, Jonathan McDowell
- Leaves on the Line
- Maholo.Ne.Trash - Prof. John Johnson (Harvard)
- Minor Planet Center
- One Astronomer's Noise - Nicole Gugliucci
- One Small Step - Sarah Kendrew
- Pauline's Perambulations - Pauline Barmby
- Star Stryder - news and updates
- Stephane Werner - career tips (Durham University)
- Strakul's Thoughts - David Rodriguez (Universidad de Chile)
- Sondy - Alessondra Springmann
- The Turbulent Scientist - Jake Simon
- His Dark CMBlog - Sunny Vagnozzi (University of Cambridge)
Research, with a more technical bent:
- Adam Ginsburg's research blog - star formation & python code
- astrobites - summarizing recent astronomy papers - by a dedicated group of grad students
- Astronomy blog - Stuart
- AstroWright - Prof. Jason Wright (Penn State)
- BDNYC - Brown dwarf, low-mass star, & exoplanet research, python tips (CUNY/AMNH)
- The Dynamics of Cats - Steinn Sigurðsson (Penn State)
- Exploding Galaxies and other Catastrophysics
- Geert's Research
- Gizis Daily Research
- His Dark CMBlog - Sunny Vagnozzi (University of Cambridge), weekly summaries of interesting arXiv papers mostly focused on cosmology/particle cosmology/astroparticle physics
- Hogg's Research - Prof. David Hogg (NYU)
- Lighthouse in the Sky
- Urania - Prof. Juan Cabanela (Minnesota State U. Moorhead)
- Systemic - Exoplanets and commentary - Greg Laughlin, UC-Santa Cruz
Research groups and collaborations
- Armaugh Planetarium
- astrobites - for an advanced general audience
- Astronoblog - Haverford Astrometry Department Blog
- CANDELS Survey - aimed at general public, extragalactic astronomy
- CosmoQuest Blog - news from/about the CosmQuest citizen science community
- Galaxy Zoo blog
- Mullard Space Science Laboratory Astronomy Blog
- Pan-STARRS1
- Planet Hunters blog
- Planetary Society Blog - general news about space and planetary science
- Zooniverse - general news about Zooniverse and citizen science projects; each individual project (Galaxy Zoo, Planet Hunters, SpaceWarps, etc) has its own separate science and research blog.
Astronomy for a general audience:
- Alice's AstroInfo - Alice Enevoldsen
- Astronomy Cafe - Sten Odenwald - Online since 1995 - FAQs
- astroengine - Ian O'Neill
- astronomerrdiff
- astropixie - Amanda Bauer
- Astroquizzical - Jillian Scudder
- Bad Astronomy - Phil Plait
- Bowler Hat Science - Matthew Francis
- Brian Koberlein - Uses Google+ as a blogging platform! Also on briankoberlein.com
- Dear Astronomer - Ray Sanders
- Discovery News: Space - many contributors, some of whom are astronomers (incl. Ian O'Neill, Nicole Gugliucci, Markus Hammonds)
- Exposing PseudoAstronomy - Stuart Robbins
- Franck Marchis - Planets and planetary science - Dr. Franck Marchis (SETI)
- Mike Brown's Planets - Solar system and beyond - Prof. Mike Brown (Caltech)
- Orbiting Frog - Every day science and astronomy - Robert Simpson
- Peter Edmonds
- Planets Above - Alex Parker
- Preposterous Universe - Sean Carroll
- Starts with a Bang - Ethan Siegel
- Supernova Condensate
- The Lined Wolf - Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO/MQ, Australia)
- Universe Today - posts about all aspects of astronomy and space news
- we are all in the gutter
- Zastrowphysics
- Little Astronomy - For parents with kids interested in astronomy
Computing/Analysis
- AstroCompute - topics in Astronomical Computing
- Astrophysicist at Work - Dr. Matt Pitkin (Glasgow), good Matlab and Unix tips
- AstroPython - resources for Python users in Astronomy (tutorials, packages, snippets)
- AstroStat - Weaving together Astronomy, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, and Intrumentation
- .py in the sky - Python in Astronomy, Open Science
Instrumentation:
- Gemini Planet Imager - Integration & testing updates on Facebook - PI Bruce Macintosh et al., Center for Adaptive Optics
- MagAO/VisAO - Development of the Magellan AO system and its diffraction-limited visible-light science camera - PI Laird Close et al., Steward Observatory
Currently not posting (9/18/2013)
- AAS Public Policy
- Astrodyke
- Cosmic Variance
- Nebulium on Neth - Prof. Adam Burgasser (UC San Diego)
- Professor Astronomy - Dr. Kurtis Williams (UTexas)
- Science, Stories, Etc.
- StarStuff Science News blog - Travis Metcalfe (High Altitude Observatory)