Breaking the Ice: Origins of Carbon Oxides on Uranian Moons
A recent study has used spectroscopy from JWST to decipher the source of carbon oxides on the four largest moons of Uranus.
When Bright Spots Go Dark
New modeling tests a common assumption that’s important for interpreting exoplanet spectra: that stars of all spectral types exhibit bright magnetized regions called faculae.
Astrobites reports on how synchrotron emission from thermal electrons could help to explain the behavior of certain tidal disruption events.
Who Needs Jupiter?
The original plan for an upcoming flagship mission to Uranus called for a slingshot around Jupiter. Now that the planet won’t be in the right position at launch time, the spacecraft will need to follow a different path.
How early did planets form in the universe? A recent study used simulations to find that planetesimals could have formed significantly earlier than previously thought.
Astrobites reports on JWST observations of dust that has survived being expelled from a galaxy into the circumgalactic medium.
Researchers have discovered a comet-shaped nebula surrounding a pulsar speeding through the remains of its progenitor star.
JWST observations of the most recent interstellar visitor reveal a coma dominated not by water, as expected for solar system comets, but instead carbon monoxide.
PDS 70c is the first exoplanet known to host a circumplanetary disk, where moons are potentially forming.