Featured Image: A Shock Surrounding a Black Widow Pulsar
New images of a rare phenomenon may help astronomers understand pulsars that consume their stellar companions.
The planet-spanning Event Horizon Telescope has captured the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
A close look at bright galaxies in the first few billion years of the universe may help us understand why these early galaxies formed stars so vigorously.
Astrobites reports on Earth’s early days, when massive asteroid impacts may have rendered our home planet somewhat less than hospitable.
Spotting Dots on the Sun
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has snapped photos of tiny, bright dots on the Sun. What’s the deal with these dots?
A new special collection of the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society encapsulates the work presented at LISA IX, a conference dedicated to stewardship of historical and modern astronomical data.
What do binary stars have to do with dark matter? More than you might expect!
Astrobites reports on the “continuous habitable zone” — an important criterion for selecting exoplanets for future atmospheric characterization.
Nearby galaxy cluster Abell 2256 is home to some amazing radio structures, which new observations have revealed in greater detail than ever before.