Sun Glitter and Sunglint on Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas
From its vantage point in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft captured the brilliant gleam of sunlight reflecting off of Titan’s oily hydrocarbon seas. New research explores what sunglint can tell us about the interaction between Titan’s seas and atmosphere.
With hundreds of pairs of merging black holes now detected via gravitational waves, researchers can investigate the sites of black hole mergers across the universe.
Life on the (Red) Edge
Astrobites reports on a surface biosignature called the vegetation red edge and how we might find it on other worlds.
Playing Pool with Planets
A new study suggests that warm and hot Jupiters, despite looking different today, underwent the same dynamical evolution when they were younger.
The new observations show that the asteroid will safely pass by the Moon at a distance of more than 20,000 kilometers.
Astrobites reports on new mid-infrared observations that allow researchers to probe the structure of active galactic nuclei.
Researchers observed Weywot, the largest moon of the dwarf planet Quaoar, as it briefly blotted out the light from a star.
A recent study looks at the star and dust morphologies across samples of massive galaxies to understand how dusty star-forming galaxies fit into the picture of massive galaxy evolution.
During its commissioning phase, the highly anticipated Vera C. Rubin Observatory serendipitously spotted the third known interstellar object.