Featured Image: Revealing Hidden Objects with Color
Sometimes stunning astronomical images can be the source of scientific discovery! This beautiful composite of a dark nebula reveals the signatures of hidden, newly formed stars.
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Featured Image: New Detail in the Toothbrush Cluster
New deep observations from the Very Large Array reveal unprecedented detail within the Toothbrush radio relic in this galaxy cluster.
Featured Image: Making Dust in the Lab
This remarkable photograph — which spans only ~10 µm across — reveals what happens when you form dust grains in a laboratory under conditions similar to those of interstellar space.
Featured Image: Connecting Theory to Observation with the FluxCompensator
One of the challenges of astronomy is connecting theoretical models of distant objects to observations. A new code allows scientists to transform models of sources into images of what we’d expect to observe.
Featured Image: Nuclear Star Clusters in Virgo
Many galaxies host extremely dense clusters of stars in their cores. Observations of these clusters help us explore how they might have formed.
Featured Image: Extinction in Our Inner Galaxy
Gas and dust can get in the way of our view of the Milky Way’s center! A new study uses tens of millions of stars to map this extinction.
Featured Image: Mixing Chemicals in Stars
How do stars mix chemicals in their interiors, leading to the abundances we measure at their surfaces?
Featured Image: Making a Rapidly Rotating Black Hole
Failed supernovae may be the key to producing rapidly spinning black holes in binaries.
Featured Image: Waves in a Coronal Fan
Oscillations in these coronal fan loops were triggered by blast waves from distant flares.
Featured Image: The Cosmic Velocity Web
You may have heard of the cosmic web, a network of filaments, clusters and voids. But have you ever considered the idea of a cosmic velocity web?