WISE-ing Up to Broken Planets
Astrobites reports on the discovery of a debris disc strewn around a white dwarf star — all that is now left of what was once likely a planetary system.
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Through the Lenses of Black Holes
Astrobites reports on a solution to the tricky process of looking for something you can’t see — like isolated black holes.
Rings from Close Encounters
Minor planets Chariklo and Chiron were recently discovered to have ring systems. Could they have formed when the minor planets got a little too close to a giant?
Monitoring Holes in the Sun’s Corona
How has the distribution of coronal holes — holes in the Sun’s upper atmosphere through which the fast solar wind escapes — changed over the last 40 years?
A Sonic Boom (Half) as Old as Time Itself
Astrobites reports on the oldest shock wave we’ve ever found, which is moving at 5 million miles per hour and was created by the collision of two galaxy clusters!
Featured Image: The Milky Way’s X
This contrast-enhanced image of the Milky Way from the WISE satellite reveals the X-shaped morphology of our galactic bulge.
New Efforts to Identify Dark Matter
Is dark matter “cold”, “warm”, or “hot”? New observations are helping us identify what makes up our universe.
The (Historical) Search for Planets Orbiting Proxima Centauri
We’ve spent the last couple decades searching for planets around our nearest stellar neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. Here’s a look at what we’ve learned so far.
What Did the First Collections of Stars Look Like?
Astrobites reports on simulations of the first groups of stars in our universe, which reveal how these groups evolve and where they might be hiding in the local universe.
When Charged Black Holes Merge
New research shows that mergers of charged black holes could generate a variety of observable signatures, from fast radio bursts to gamma-ray bursts.
A High-Velocity Collision With Our Galaxy’s Disk
A new study finds evidence that a high-velocity cloud may have smashed into the Milky Way’s disk five million years ago.
History of a Rare Radio Galaxy Revealed by Its Jets
The unusual structure of a recently discovered radio galaxy gives scientists clues about its temperamental past.