Featured Image: Chasing Weywot’s Shadow
Researchers observed Weywot, the largest moon of the dwarf planet Quaoar, as it briefly blotted out the light from a star.
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Featured Image: Galaxies Caught in Transition
Are galaxies that travel through space in groups any different from those that fly solo? A new look at local galaxies provides clues.
Featured Image: Disequilibrium on Display
Interacting galaxies, sparkling starbursts, and strange structures abound in new images from the Hubble Arp Galaxy Survey.
Featured Image: Massive Stars in the Making
JWST examines one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way, where two massive protoclusters are shaping 10,000 solar masses of gas into new stars.
Featured Image: An Active Galaxy Cluster Merger at Cosmic Noon
Observations of a galaxy cluster during the universe’s star-formation heyday give clues to the cluster’s history.
Featured Image: A Treasure Trove of Strong Lenses
Using a neural network, researchers have discovered 3,500 candidate strong gravitational lenses in data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.
Featured Image: Rare Giant Galaxies
How do giant low-surface-brightness galaxies form? New research investigates two galactic specimens to search for clues.
Featured Image: Hubble Revisits the Crab Nebula
How has the Crab Nebula supernova remnant changed since the Hubble Space Telescope observed it in 1999–2000?
Featured Image: Hubble Samples a Dusty Cosmic Sandwich
Hubble has revealed new features in Dracula’s Chivito, the largest known protoplanetary disk.
Featured Image: Galaxy Cluster in Technicolor
The CANUCS survey brought five galaxy clusters into focus, painting a portrait of galactic life in the early universe.