Featured Image: Making Molecules on Dust
Laboratory astrophysics experiments are giving us an up-close look at how complex molecules can form on the surfaces of dust grains.
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Featured Image: Heat from Uranian Rings
Recent observations reveal the thermal emission from Uranus’s narrow ring system for the first time.
Featured Image: Growing Globular Clusters from Mergers
Could globular clusters rise from the wreckage of a dwarf-galaxy collision? New simulations are helping us to find out.
Featured Image: Oscillations from Merging Giants
What happens to accreting gas when two supermassive black holes merge? Dramatic simulations provide new clues.
Featured Image: A Disk for a Newly Born Planet
These ALMA images reveal emission from a disk of dust feeding a new planet and possibly providing material for future moons.
Featured Image: Variable Stars in a Nearby Cluster
This crowded field of color is helping astronomers understand what causes variability in young stellar objects.
Featured Image: Exploring Dusty Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
What can we learn about mysterious ultraluminous X-ray sources if we look at them in a different wavelength?
Featured Image: Nebular Candles
This collection of ten spectacular Hubble images reveals candle-flame-shaped pre-planetary nebulae formed around dying stars.
Featured Image: A Runaway Pulsar
In these dramatic images, a pulsar can be seen plunging out of a supernova remnant and taking off into interstellar space.
Featured Image: Tracking a Hole from the Sun
This dramatic image reveals the expansion of a large coronal cavity as it erupts from the Sun’s surface in the form of a coronal mass ejection.