Featured Image: Detecting Dust in the Local Universe
Maps of nearby galaxies using data from the Herschel Space Telescope give researchers a new perspective on dust evolution.
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Featured Image: A Neutron Star Collision
Researchers use complex fluid dynamics models to understand what happens when neutron stars — the ultra-dense remnants of massive stars — meet in a catastrophic collision.
Featured Image: Making the First Stars in Spinning Clouds
Researchers use simulations to explore the possible masses of the first stars in the universe — which may determine whether those stars are still present in the universe today.
Featured Image: Two Young Star Clusters in the Milky Way
Researchers track down a pair of metal-poor star clusters on the outskirts of the Milky Way to understand how metallicity affects the masses of young stars.
Featured Image: Outflows from the Silver Coin Galaxy
About 11 million light-years away, the starburst galaxy NGC 253 spews gas into circumgalactic space. What can X-ray observations tell us about this star-forming system?
Featured Image: Re-tuning Our Understanding of the Guitar Nebula
A fast-moving pulsar has created a spectacular guitar-shaped wake that astronomers have been studying for more than 25 years.
Featured Image: Considering Craters on Uranus’s Moon Miranda
Icy solar system moons typically have sharp, well-defined craters, but Uranus’s moon Miranda has gentler surface features. What makes Miranda’s craters so subtle?
Featured Image: A Plasma-Producing Pulsar
New simulations explore plasma production and particle acceleration near the surface of a dense, highly magnetized pulsar.
Featured Image: The Making of the First JWST Images
How did those iconic first images from JWST come to be? Members of the JWST Early Release Observations committee describe the process from brainstorming to broadcasting.
Featured Image: Navigating Turbulence Around an Active Young Star
Modelers explore how explosions of stellar plasma affect the passage of high-energy particles.