Two More Double-Faced White Dwarfs Discovered
A search for white dwarfs that present different compositional “faces” as they spin has dredged up two new members of the emerging class of double-faced white dwarfs.
Researchers explore how the tilt of merging galaxies can impact the eventual collision of their supermassive black holes.
Astrobites reports on a new method to find the galaxies hosting the universe’s first generation of stars.
Interacting galaxies, sparkling starbursts, and strange structures abound in new images from the Hubble Arp Galaxy Survey.
Researchers have detected water vapor around a B[e] supergiant star for the first time, indicating a likely binary companion for LHA 115-S 18.
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.