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A new catalog of solar flares aims to understand why some flares are accompanied by massive explosions of plasma and others are not.
A new catalog of solar flares aims to understand why some flares are accompanied by massive explosions of plasma and others are not.
How precise will our measurements of neutron star sizes be when future gravitational wave observatories come online?
Five articles provide perspectives on the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, from JWST’s first search for the innermost planets’ atmospheres to the prospect of detecting life, should it exist.
With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have uncovered evidence that three previously observed sources are actually rare brown dwarf binaries.
Tidal stripping may explain why a tiny galaxy hosts a black hole nearly as massive as the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole.
Could supernova shocks be the source of charged particles accelerated up to quadrillions of electronvolts?
Astrobites reports on how to identify merging galaxies and investigate the importance of these collisions over cosmic time.
Researchers analyze solar images to understand how umbral oscillations travel upward and outward from sunspot centers.
A new theory explains why tidal disruption events are only rarely accompanied by powerful jets.
Researchers search for massive white dwarfs that once resided in the nearest open star cluster to Earth.
A red point-source in the early universe is revealed to be a massive active galactic nucleus that contributes a third of its galaxy’s total mass. How did it grow so large so quickly?
Modelers attempt to overcome the challenges posed by simulating the ultra-dense, ultra-strong crusts of neutron stars.