Featured Image: Watching Waves in Sunspot Centers
Researchers analyze solar images to understand how umbral oscillations travel upward and outward from sunspot centers.
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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.
Featured Image: Reading a Galaxy’s History from Its Globular Clusters
Globular clusters help researchers disentangle the formation history of an unusually diffuse galaxy.
Featured Image: A Rare X-ray Binary in a Starburst Galaxy
Researchers have identified the optical counterpart to an X-ray binary system, giving us clues about the nature of this extreme star system.
Featured Image: Minor Planet Vesta Gets a New Map
Researchers have mapped the surface of one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, using a technique that marries different data types into one visualization.
Featured Image: A New Einstein Cross
A rare kind of strongly lensed galaxy is now confirmed spectroscopically, adding to the short list of known Einstein Crosses.
Featured Image: The Many Shapes of Radio Jets
How do radio jets end up in X, S, or Z shapes? Simulations explore how precession might play a role.
Featured Image: Warped, Flared, and Ultra-thin
An extremely flat galaxy, seen edge on, has a wealth of subtle imperfections that hold the clues to the galaxy’s history.
Featured Image: The Milky Way as Seen in Gravitational Waves
A recent research article imagines what the Milky Way would look like if we could observe low-frequency gravitational waves from ultra-compact binary systems.
Featured Image: Motion in the Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant
Hubble Space Telescope observations spanning 22 years reveal movement in a supernova shock wave.