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Simfish
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I don't know what happened, but it seems that all the "hot" research is in fields like astrobiology, cosmology, computational astrophysics, and survey science (SDSS, LSST, etc). The most popular area of astro is still extragalactic stuff (which still makes up >50% of astro research), but even that isn't stellar astrophysics. Meanwhile, all the stellar astrophysicists in my department are all old and graying. I rarely see stellar astrophysics reach the front pages of department websites or science journals, except for those rare cases when a star does something unusual (see Betelgeuse).
Does anyone else have the same impression?
Does anyone else have the same impression?
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