A recently discovered tidal disruption event has astronomers investigating new ways in which stars may be ripped apart by supermassive black holes.

solar wind

A new method for handling data with significant gaps can be applied to extremely sparse datasets, such as Voyager data from the outer heliosphere.

active galaxy Hercules A

Astrobites reports on simulations that improve our understanding of how jets from active galactic nuclei interact with the interstellar medium.

Illustration of Jupiter and a Jupiter-like exoplanet

New research suggests that JWST is capable of directly imaging planets that resemble the gas giants in our solar system, provided they orbit nearby stars.

images from the Hubble Image Similarity Project

A team of citizen scientists compared 5.4 million pairs of astronomical images, helping researchers create a database of image similarity information that can be used to test image-search algorithms.

Artist's depiction of two black holes nearing a merger.

Astrobites reports on how researchers are preparing for future detections of merging supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes.

combined Hubble and JWST image of GRB 221009A

Two powerful telescopes examined the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed by humans, hundreds of days after the burst was first detected. What did they see?

With their extremely low surface brightness, ultra-diffuse galaxies are very difficult to detect, but a recent study has spotted one by searching for its globular clusters.