The dust in protoplanetary disks is subject to complicated dynamical processes that impact planet formation. Recent simulations suggest that dust may be more freely moving within disks with planets than previously thought.
Finally found: using speckle imaging, researchers have spotted what is likely the predicted 1.6-solar-mass companion to the red supergiant Betelgeuse.
Astrobites reports on very deep JWST observations and the hunt for the first galaxies in the universe.
What’s responsible for the haphazard orbits of the stars closest to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole? A second black hole, perhaps.
Astrobites reports on the origins of the unusual green structure surrounding the active galaxy NGC 5972.
One of the first-look images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory contained a rare find: a candidate circumstellar or protoplanetary disk in a region where few such disks have been discovered.
A search for oddities in archival JWST data has turned up something remarkable: a rare pair of collisional ring galaxies that may have birthed a supermassive black hole during their clash.
JWST observations of the young star cluster IC 348 revealed extremely low-mass brown dwarfs with signatures of hydrocarbons in their spectra: meet the members of the proposed “H” spectral class.
A recently discovered tidal disruption event has astronomers investigating new ways in which stars may be ripped apart by supermassive black holes.
A new method for handling data with significant gaps can be applied to extremely sparse datasets, such as Voyager data from the outer heliosphere.
Astrobites reports on simulations that improve our understanding of how jets from active galactic nuclei interact with the interstellar medium.
New research suggests that JWST is capable of directly imaging planets that resemble the gas giants in our solar system, provided they orbit nearby stars.