Simulations of Solar Jets
How do jets emitted from the Sun’s surface contribute to its corona and to the solar wind?
How do jets emitted from the Sun’s surface contribute to its corona and to the solar wind?
Having a giant planet like Jupiter next door can really wreak havoc on your orbit! What might such a bad neighbor mean for the long-term climate of an Earth-like planet?
Astrobites reports on cosmic rays observed at Earth with the Tibet Air Shower experiment.
More than 700 candidate stellar bow shock nebulae — signs of runaway stars — have been discovered in the Milky Way.
For the first time, scientists have imaged a very young, high-mass binary system and resolved the individual disks that surround each star and the circumbinary disk surrounding the pair.
A quasar has been caught in the act of rapidly switching on. What caused the sudden transition?
Astrobites reports on the different colors of galaxies, and what they tell us about galaxy evolution.
The possibility of liquid water is not the only thing that determines where life is most likely in the universe! UV radiation also plays an important role.
Hi’iaka, the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Haumea, spins much more rapidly than expected. What does this tell us about its formation?
New simulations show what happens when a magnetized star is torn apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole.
Astrobites reports on several planetary nebulae unexpectedly discovered in globular clusters.
How are the arms of spiral galaxies like the Milky Way created? The gravitational pull of a galaxy cluster might play a role.