Monthly Roundup: Rings, Chains, and Bubbles
From planetary systems to colliding galaxies, the universe is full of intricate structures. This month’s roundup examines where three vastly different types of structures come from.
In May 2024, the Sun put on a powerful display of solar storms, and researchers have examined the source of all this activity to understand why.
The dust in protoplanetary disks is subject to complicated dynamical processes that impact planet formation. Recent simulations suggest that dust may be more freely moving within disks with planets than previously thought.
Finally found: using speckle imaging, researchers have spotted what is likely the predicted 1.6-solar-mass companion to the red supergiant Betelgeuse.
A GLIMPSE of the First Galaxies?
Astrobites reports on very deep JWST observations and the hunt for the first galaxies in the universe.
What’s responsible for the haphazard orbits of the stars closest to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole? A second black hole, perhaps.
Astrobites reports on the origins of the unusual green structure surrounding the active galaxy NGC 5972.
One of the first-look images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory contained a rare find: a candidate circumstellar or protoplanetary disk in a region where few such disks have been discovered.
A search for oddities in archival JWST data has turned up something remarkable: a rare pair of collisional ring galaxies that may have birthed a supermassive black hole during their clash.