Featured Image: A Suite of Exploding Stars
A new suite of supernova simulations allows researchers to find correlations between the properties of these cosmic explosions and properties of the stars they came from.
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Featured Image: Giant Star-Forming Cloud
A giant star-forming region in the Milky Way has a new infrared portrait, thanks to a telescope flying through the stratosphere.
Featured Image: Mapping Matter in the Universe
Researchers measure tiny distortions in the oldest light in the universe to determine where matter is concentrated.
Featured Image: Minidisks in Massive Binaries
Researchers investigate the behavior of minidisks: the small disks of gas that collect around the individual supermassive black holes in a binary pair.
Featured Image: How Close Is Too Close to a Kilonova?
How far do we need to be from a kilonova to be safe from the explosion’s X-rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays?
Featured Image: Lensed Quasars and the Hubble Constant
Quasars that have been gravitationally lensed by galaxy clusters provide a way to measure the expansion rate of the universe and possibly alleviate the Hubble tension.
Featured Image: Surveying the Milky Way’s Faint X-ray Sources
The first phase of a survey designed to discover faint X-ray sources in our galaxy is complete, resulting in the discovery of hundreds of new sources.
Featured Image: Solar Flares in Focus
A new catalog of solar flares aims to understand why some flares are accompanied by massive explosions of plasma and others are not.
Featured Image: Watching Waves in Sunspot Centers
Researchers analyze solar images to understand how umbral oscillations travel upward and outward from sunspot centers.
Featured Image: The Cosmic Hand in Polarized Light
A distinctive pulsar wind nebula shaped like an outstretched hand is seen in polarized X-rays for the first time.