Featured Image: Clinging to an Atmosphere
Could TOI-700 d, an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of an early-type M-dwarf star, have held on to its atmosphere over long timescales?
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Featured Image: Forming Betelgeuse from a Stellar Merger
New research suggests the familiar red supergiant Betelgeuse may be the outcome of one star in a binary pair consuming the other.
Featured Image: Fractals in Cosmic Gas
What happens in galactic and intergalactic settings when cold, dense gas moves through hot, diffuse gas?
Featured Image: BUFFALO Hunting with Hubble
Want an even wider look at the rich galaxy clusters of the Hubble Frontier Fields? Take a walk with BUFFALO.
Featured Image: On the Cosmic Web and Slime Mold
These beautiful images show what happens when you use slime mold growth patterns to model the cosmic web.
Featured Image: Formation of the First Binaries
When primordial gas clouds collapse and fragment in the early universe, the resulting massive stars may form with friends.
Featured Image: A Distant Cluster Tips the Scales
Scientists have now carefully weighed the most massive distant galaxy cluster known.
Featured Image: Evidence for Planets in Disks?
Observations of the gas in the disks around young stars may provide new evidence for the presence of hidden planets.
Featured Image: In Search of Distant Clusters
The South Pole Telescope has uncovered the signatures of hundreds of large clusters of galaxies.
Featured Image: Playing Harps in the Radio Sky
Look closely at this radio image and you might see why scientists have named this phenomenon a radio “harp”.