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News Editor at Sky & Telescope

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Monica Young’s Biography

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As Sky & Telescope's News Editor, Monica commissions, writes, and edits news and feature articles on the latest in astronomy science and observing.

Monica won the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division Popular Media Award for her November 2020 feature article "To Touch the Sun" on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe's record-breaking journey to study our nearest star.

Monica joined the Sky & Telescope staff in 2012 as web editor, with a primary mission of creating, maintaining, and updat…

Monica Young’s Journalist Portfolio

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The New Space Race

The New Space Race

Multiple companies are launching, or planning to launch, a throng of satellites into low-Earth orbit. The eff…

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Interstellar Space: The View from Voyager 2

Interstellar Space: The View from Voyager 2

Voyager 2 crossed into interstellar space a year ago. Now, five teams of astronomers have analyzed the data i…

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Pioneers of the Invisible Universe

Pioneers of the Invisible Universe

As scientists and engineers worked over the decades to access the X-ray sky, they revealed a hot and lively c…

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Evidence for a Dark Matter Clump in the Milky Way

Evidence for a Dark Matter Clump in the Milky Way

There are ghosts in our galaxy’s past. Now astronomers have found a way to detect them.

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Was 'Oumuamua a Fragment from a Disintegrated Comet? - Sky & Telescope

Was 'Oumuamua a Fragment from a Disintegrated Comet? - Sky & Telescope

‘Oumuamua’s strange trajectory back out to interstellar space can be explained if the object was a comet frag…

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Machines Learning Astronomy

Machines Learning Astronomy

The new era of Big Data and artificial intelligence is changing how we do astronomy.

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Articles

Infant Galaxy Clusters Grew Faster Than Expected

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By Monica Young 
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Astronomers have discovered three still-growing galaxy clusters in the early universe that point to a faster track of evolution than expected. Galaxy clusters are the universe’s most massive bound structures. The nearby Coma Cluster, for example, spans some 20 million light-years and contains more than 1,000 galaxies. But such a cosmic metropolis isn’t built in a day.
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Black Hole Eats One Star, the Remains Pummel a Second One

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By Monica Young 
| Sky & Telescope
The crumbs of a supermassive black hole’s stellar meal has revealed the presence of a second star in a close orbit. In 2019 a supermassive black hole ate a star. It’s incredible that such an incredible event is now commonplace — not in individual galaxies, where such stellar meals happen only every 10,000 to 100,000 years, but in our telescopes, through which astronomers can monitor millions of galaxies to observe their feeding habits.
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Black Hole's Colossal Jets Pierce the Cosmic Void

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By Monica Young 
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A pair of plasma jets powered by a supermassive black hole span far beyond their host galaxy — potentially affecting the cosmic web around it. The supermassive black hole at the center of a massive galaxy has powered a giant pair of plasma jets, spanning 23 million light-years long from tip to tip. That’s almost 10 times the distance between our Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. Astronomers have nicknamed the record-breaking system Porphyrion, after the king of the giants in Greek mythology.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I started working for Sky & Telescope as an intern. I lasted two weeks...before they hired me full time.

Why did you become a journalist?

I am an astronomer and love to get into the weeds of a research problem, but journalism allows me to pull back and synthesize information.

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Chasing, playing with, and learning from my three children.

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