One of the first-look images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory contained a rare find: a candidate circumstellar or protoplanetary disk in a region where few such disks have been discovered.
A search for oddities in archival JWST data has turned up something remarkable: a rare pair of collisional ring galaxies that may have birthed a supermassive black hole during their clash.
JWST observations of the young star cluster IC 348 revealed extremely low-mass brown dwarfs with signatures of hydrocarbons in their spectra: meet the members of the proposed “H” spectral class.
A recently discovered tidal disruption event has astronomers investigating new ways in which stars may be ripped apart by supermassive black holes.
A new method for handling data with significant gaps can be applied to extremely sparse datasets, such as Voyager data from the outer heliosphere.
Astrobites reports on simulations that improve our understanding of how jets from active galactic nuclei interact with the interstellar medium.
New research suggests that JWST is capable of directly imaging planets that resemble the gas giants in our solar system, provided they orbit nearby stars.
A team of citizen scientists compared 5.4 million pairs of astronomical images, helping researchers create a database of image similarity information that can be used to test image-search algorithms.
Astrobites reports on how researchers are preparing for future detections of merging supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes.
Two powerful telescopes examined the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed by humans, hundreds of days after the burst was first detected. What did they see?
With their extremely low surface brightness, ultra-diffuse galaxies are very difficult to detect, but a recent study has spotted one by searching for its globular clusters.
The massive nearby elliptical galaxy Messier 87 hosts one of the most-studied supermassive black holes in the universe. What have researchers recently learned about this black hole’s spin, jets, and flares?