Featured Image: Untangling the Galaxy
Did you know that the stars around us are organized into a tangle of strings? Gaia is helping us sort out the threads.
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Featured Image: To Heat a White Dwarf
Simulations explore whether clusters of neon might be to blame for mysteriously warm white dwarfs.
Featured Image: A Magnetized, Moon-Forming Giant Impact
New state-of-the-art simulations reveal what may have happened when a planetary-mass impactor smashed into the early Earth.
Featured Image: Exploring Active Regions on the Sun
How can we tell how much energy is leaking out of active regions on the Sun?
Featured Image: Blob Ejection May Cause Magnetar Bursts
This dramatic simulation shows how the escape of blobs of plasma from a magnetar could produce fast radio bursts.
Featured Image: Simulating the Birth of a Close Binary
Ever wondered how stellar binaries form? Check out this numerical simulation, which tracks the process over 400 years.
Featured Image: Clumps in a Dusty Ring
A recent study shows how a ring of dust and gas surrounding a newly born star might behave as it evolves.
Featured Image: A Solar Eclipse from the Ground and Space
This stunning image of the Sun and its corona is composited from hundreds of individual frames captured during a solar eclipse.
Featured Image: Investigating Venus’s Volcanic Activity in the Lab
Is Venus still volcanically active today? The differences between the two rocks shown here point to an answer.
Featured Image: Smashing Spheres of Ice
New laboratory experiments explode hollow ice spheres to learn about catastrophic collisions in the early solar system.