Interaction Reactions: How Galaxy Encounters Influence Star Formation
Across cosmic time, galaxies interact and merge with each other, causing disruptions in their behavior. Recent simulations explore the impacts interactions have on the star formation activity in interacting galaxies.
Investigating a Polluted White Dwarf
JWST spectra illuminate the composition of the debris disk around GD 362, one of the most polluted white dwarfs known.
Astrobites reports on a cosmic drama in action: three active black holes, tangled jets, and fading light.
Astronomers search for a simple organic molecule in Lynds 1544, a cold, dense clump of gas that will one day become a star.
A chance alignment between galaxies allows astronomers to study a single star system as it was when the universe was just 6 billion years old.
Astrobites reports on the potential habitability of Teegarden’s Star b, a promising Earth-like planet.
How has the Crab Nebula supernova remnant changed since the Hubble Space Telescope observed it in 1999–2000?
A recent study looks to the nearest rubble-ridden systems for the potential origins of interstellar objects that have visited our solar system.
The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time will detect an astonishing number of transients — including kilonovae from colliding neutron stars.