Citizen Science Born in the Pandemic: The Hubble Image Similarity Project
A team of citizen scientists compared 5.4 million pairs of astronomical images, helping researchers create a database of image similarity information that can be used to test image-search algorithms.
Astrobites reports on how synchrotron emission from thermal electrons could help to explain the behavior of certain tidal disruption events.
Who Needs Jupiter?
The original plan for an upcoming flagship mission to Uranus called for a slingshot around Jupiter. Now that the planet won’t be in the right position at launch time, the spacecraft will need to follow a different path.
How early did planets form in the universe? A recent study used simulations to find that planetesimals could have formed significantly earlier than previously thought.
Astrobites reports on JWST observations of dust that has survived being expelled from a galaxy into the circumgalactic medium.
Researchers have discovered a comet-shaped nebula surrounding a pulsar speeding through the remains of its progenitor star.
JWST observations of the most recent interstellar visitor reveal a coma dominated not by water, as expected for solar system comets, but instead carbon monoxide.
PDS 70c is the first exoplanet known to host a circumplanetary disk, where moons are potentially forming.
Galaxies of Many Colors
Astrobites reports on whether our methods for weighing galaxies can help save cosmology from JWST’s universe-breaking galaxies.