A Late-Stage Infall Renovation: Mapping the Circumstellar Disk of AB Aurigae
What happens when a young star captures some extra gas and dust? New observations of a dusty disk reveals how a late-stage infall event may be influencing planet formation in AB Aurigae.
Astrobites reports on the detection of complex molecules around a protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Jets, variability, and neutrinos: dive into three recent investigations of active galactic nuclei.
An Impostor Explosion
Hoping to find the second kilonova to be detected in both gravitational waves and light, astronomers ended up with a supernova instead.
JWST’s mysterious little red dots may be evidence of black hole stars in the early universe.
Astrobites reports on whether a distant companion in a triple-star system could push the inner binary toward merging into a remnant object that emits fast radio bursts.
Observations of a galaxy cluster during the universe’s star-formation heyday give clues to the cluster’s history.
The Lucy mission has provided insights into the craters, boulders, and other surface features of the asteroid Dinkinesh and its small satellite, Selam.
Astronomers search for spacetime ripples from a possible supermassive black hole binary at the heart of the elliptical galaxy 3C 66B.