Astrobites

A neat blog called Astrobites may be of interest to CS participants. The blog is aimed at undergraduate astronomy students, but I think would be equally interesting and useful to amateur astronomers interested in research. They take a paper from the research paper preprint server astro-ph and describe it in a summary designed to be read in 5-minutes or less.

From Astrobites:

"Each day, Astrobites, written by graduate students at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, distills  one interesting astro-ph paper into a brief format at a level accessible to undergraduate students in the physical sciences. Our goal is to develop a gateway to the astrophysical research community suitable for an undergraduate starting in research, complete with simple explanations and links to introductory level resources designed to familiarize students with the field of astrophysics. Readers will learn about the latest research, major questions motivating the field, observational and theoretical techniques, and what it's like to observe at a large telescope or attend an AAS meeting."