Featured Image: Hunting for Past Fireworks
This stunning image reveals a face-on spiral galaxy rich with the fireworks of stellar birth and death.
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Compact Objects Charging Toward Merger
When neutron stars or black holes merge, will they emit light? A neglected factor may affect the answer: electric charge.
Exploring Filaments on the Sun
Images of the Sun’s chromosphere often reveal dark threads cutting across the Sun’s face. New research explores the structure of one such solar filament.
U(V) Light Up My Life
M dwarfs are known to be active, flaring stars. Astrobites reports on whether this radiation could potentially fuel life instead of destroying it.
NuSTAR Explores the Aftermath of a Supernova
The NuSTAR spacecraft’s X-ray view has revealed new details about a particularly extreme supernova remnant.
A Faster Way to Form Planets
Could icy planetesimals roaming the galaxy act as seeds for planet formation?
First Images of a Black Hole from the Event Horizon Telescope
Astronomers have used a telescope that spans the globe to capture the first detailed images of a black hole.
A New Window into Prebiotic Nitrogen Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks
Astrobites reports on what the hunt for nitrogen-bearing molecules in nearby protoplanetary disks has revealed.
Featured Image: Modeling a Cosmic Horseshoe
These beautiful Hubble images reveal the Cosmic Horseshoe, an example of strong gravitational lensing.
Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Fate of Our Universe
What’s the eventual fate of our universe? New results from Dark Energy Survey supernovae address this and other questions.
The Variable Jets of Gamma-Ray Bursts
What drives the rapid flickering in the jets that are produced in some powerful, high-energy explosions?
The Search for Black Hole Teenagers
Astrobites reports on how the discovery of medium-sized black holes allows us to trace the history of the giant black holes in the center of galaxies.