Michelangelo in Space: A Planet Carving the Fomalhaut Debris Disk?
Astrobites reports on the Fomalhaut debris disk, which is well studied but may contain a hidden planet we haven’t seen yet.
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Featured Image: Studying the Space Weather of Young Suns
An ongoing survey aims to detect bursts of radio emission associated with flares and coronal mass ejections from young Sun-like stars.
Investigating the Most Luminous Known Fast Blue Optical Transient
AT2024wpp is the most powerful fast blue optical transient spotted so far. What do extensive X-ray and radio observations tell us about this event?
Boosting the Gravitational Wave Background
Researchers show how preferential accretion in a merging pair of supermassive black holes can explain the unexpectedly large amplitude of the gravitational wave background.
Bumpy Road Ahead: Can Binary Interactions Make Supernovae Periodically Brighter?
Astrobites reports on simulations that explore whether a baby neutron star repeatedly diving into the envelope of its inflated companion star could be the cause of bumpy supernova light curves.
How Solar Flares Hint That They’re About to Happen
Researchers have investigated how solar flares might signal that they’re about to occur and whether they’ll be accompanied by an explosion of plasma.
The Times They Are A-Changin’: Searching for Shifts in Variable Star Light Curves
Astrobites reports on efforts to understand how the variability of certain variable stars changes over time.
Hubble on the Hunt: A Spectroscopic Search for Betelbuddy
What can ultraviolet observations from Hubble tell us about the identity of Betelgeuse’s likely companion star?
Too Much Nitrogen Pops Open the Search for the Universe’s First Stars
JWST discovered a distant galaxy with too much nitrogen, which has led to evidence of the universe’s first stars.
Black Holes with a Shared Background
New research suggests that triplet stars might be able to evolve into every observable type of stellar-mass black hole system.
Do X-Rays Help or Hurt Massive Black Hole Formation?
Astrobites reports on how X-rays influenced the formation of the first massive black holes in the universe.
The Sun Left Home in a Hurry
By studying the orbits of rare outer solar system objects, astronomers have estimated how long it took for the Sun to leave its birth cluster.