Featured Image: Using Supernova Refsdal to Measure the Hubble Constant
The multiple images of supernova Refsdal visible in this photo have helped scientists to better pin down the value of the Hubble constant.
Highlights RSS
When Giant Planets Orbit Evolved Stars
When stars age and evolve into enormous red giants, what happens to close-in giant planets that orbit them?
Featured Image: Extended Fireworks in Space
Are you planning to watch 4th of July fireworks tonight? Here’s a little preview on a cosmic scale!
A White Dwarf Moving With The Flow
Astrobites reports on what we can learn from a white dwarf found moving along with a group of main-sequence stars.
Piecing Together the Light from Colliding Stars
Since the discovery of GW170817, what have we learned about the radiation that emerges from the collisions of compact objects like neutron stars?
Investigating Confined Solar Flares
Why are some solar flares associated with coronal mass ejections while others are not?
Peering Inside the Pillars of Creation
What’s going on with the magnetic fields inside the Pillars of Creation, one of the most iconic structures imaged by Hubble? A new study finds out.
Clearing Up Stellar Streams with Gaia
Astrobites reports on how Gaia is helping us understand elements of our own galaxy — such as the long streams of stars that extend within the Milky Way’s stellar halo.
Featured Image: Saturn’s Moon Phoebe Is a Water-Rich Rock
Observations from Cassini’s flyby reveal the icy surface of Saturn’s largest irregular moon.
Identifying Life from Varying Atmospheres
Could we detect life on other planets from distinctive seasonal changes in planetary atmospheres?
Exploring Jets from a Supermassive Black Hole
Observations of a nearby monster supermassive black hole reveal more about the behavior of its powerful jets.
Dust n’ H2
What if the diffuse interstellar medium isn’t smoothly distributed? Astrobites explores how the gas and dust between stars might clump up, and what impact this would have on the formation of large molecular clouds.