Tracing the Fuel for Forming Stars
Only a small fraction of the cold hydrogen gas in the local universe is molecular gas, able to directly fuel star formation. But is this also true at earlier times in our universe?
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RNAAS: A Unique Journal Joins the Family
RNAAS is a new home for your brief science communications that are likely to be interesting or useful to members of the astronomical community.
Modeling Limitless Skies
Astrobites reports on how we can better understand the signatures in exoplanet atmospheres — something that we can use in our search for life on other planets.
Featured Image: Extinction in Our Inner Galaxy
Gas and dust can get in the way of our view of the Milky Way’s center! A new study uses tens of millions of stars to map this extinction.
Observing a Strange Pulsar in X-ray and Radio
Astrobites reports on the unusually behaving pulsar PSR J1023+0038.
Little Eyes on Large Solar Motions
It seems like science is increasingly being done with advanced detectors on enormous ground- and space-based telescopes. One might wonder: is there anything left to learn from observations made with small telescopes?
A Neptune in the Nearby Hyades
Astrobites reports on a new Neptune-like planet discovered orbiting in a close binary system.
How A Black Hole Lights Up Its Surroundings
How do the supermassive black holes that live at the centers of galaxies influence their environments?
Trapping Dust to Form Planets
Growing a planet from a dust grain is hard work! A new study explores how vortices in protoplanetary disks can assist this process.
Featured Image: Mixing Chemicals in Stars
How do stars mix chemicals in their interiors, leading to the abundances we measure at their surfaces?
Is S0-2 a Binary Star?
The most exciting discoveries in astronomy all have something in common: they let us marvel at the fact that nature obeys laws of physics. Astrobites reports on the star S0-2, one of these exciting discoveries.
Neutron-Star Merger Detected By Many Eyes and Ears
It’s rare that science progresses forward in a giant leap, with years of theories confirmed in one fell swoop. The simultaneous detection of a neutron-star merger in gravitational waves and photons marks one of these leaps.