Featured Image: Lunar Swirls
Researchers investigate the cause of bright, sinuous swirls that are associated with magnetic fields embedded within the Moon’s surface.
Enhancing the Sharpest Images
Event Horizon Telescope images are already some of the sharpest in all of astronomy. A new algorithm might be able to squeeze even more information out of them with complex statistical modeling.
Astrobites reports on a study of galaxies that are on the brink of entering their “quiet” phase.
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.