Featured Image: A Bubble Triggering Star Formation
The expanding bubble captured in this infrared image is triggering star-formation as it passes.
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Featured Image: Modeling Supernova Remnants
A new study examines how a one-dimensional model can be used to reproduce the multidimensional effects of mixing in supernova remnants.
Featured Image: A Gap in TW Hydrae
Recent ALMA observations reveal beautiful concentric ring structure within the protoplanetary disk that surrounds a young, Sun-like star.
Featured Image: Violent History of the Toothbrush Cluster
The Toothbrush Cluster’s enormous radio relic may have been caused by a past merger between clusters.
Featured Image: Orbiting Stars Share an Envelope
This beautiful series of snapshots from a simulation shows what happens when two stars in a binary system become enclosed in the same stellar envelope.
Featured Image: Solar Prominence Eruptions
Images of two powerful solar prominence eruptions have helped astronomers model how these eruptions travel away from the Sun.
Featured Image: A New Look at Malin 1
We now have a spectacular new view of the very faint spiral galaxy Malin 1, located roughly 1.2 billion light-years away.
Featured Image: Reddened Stars Reveal Andromeda’s Dust
A recent study has used the reddening of several stars in nearby Andromeda to learn about the properties of the dust within this galaxy.
Featured Image: Spitzer Galaxies
Spitzer has recently taken beautiful infrared images of 2352 nearby galaxies, as a part of the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G).
Featured Image: A Double Cluster
A recent study used the Hubble Space Telescope to perform a high-resolution multi-band survey of Westerland 2, the very young star cluster visible in this spectacular image.