TDE

Astrobites reports on the first confident detection of an accretion disk that formed after a supermassive black hole tore apart a hapless star.

Pulsar planet
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Searching Pulsars for Planets

A new study explores whether there are any exoplanets orbiting the well-observed NANOGrav pulsars.

Messier 2
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A Stellar Method of Catalog Creation

Getting star catalogs out of telescope images is a tricky affair. But a recent technique promises improvements on existing catalogs, and it could be widely applicable as large-scale astronomical surveys begin.

Earth-like planet
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Rescuing an Overlooked Planet

Sometimes real exoplanet detections are accidentally discarded by the automated vetting pipeline. One such error was just discovered: a habitable-zone Earth-like planet candidate.

illustris simulation
Astrobites

How to Grow a Giant Galaxy

Astrobites reports on how the universe can grow a giant galaxy by a redshift of z ~ 2.

massive first-star binary

When primordial gas clouds collapse and fragment in the early universe, the resulting massive stars may form with friends.

FAST radio telescope

Pulsars in distant globular clusters are a challenge to detect — but it’s a job made easier by the world’s largest filled-aperture radio telescope.

Betelgeuse

An airplane-borne telescope is being used to learn more about why the red supergiant Betelgeuse suddenly dimmed in recent months.