Crater Cartography: Mapping the Moon’s North Pole
New high-resolution maps of the Moon’s north pole reveal interesting terrain and locations possibly preserving water ice, which will inform future lunar exploration.
A comet tangled with a coronal mass ejection and lost part of its tail in the process.
JWST examines one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way, where two massive protoclusters are shaping 10,000 solar masses of gas into new stars.
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Astrobites reports on an intriguing new object that may be an early universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon.
Researchers investigate the possibility that the off-center black hole and double nucleus of NGC 4486B can be traced to a recent supermassive black hole merger.
A recent study uses high-resolution JWST observations to perform an atmospheric analysis of a rare exoplanet orbiting a dead star.
Neutron stars contain some of the most extreme matter in the universe, and researchers are exploring a promising but challenging way to probe their interiors.
Astrobites reports on the detection of complex molecules around a protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud.