Featured Image: A Comet’s Coma
These images of comet 67P mark the first time we’ve been able to study the inner coma of a comet at this level of detail.
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AAS Publishing News: A Second Round of AASTex Improvements
Are you an astronomer considering submitting a paper to an AAS journal? If so, this post is for you! Read on to find out what’s new in the latest update to AAS’s LaTeX class file, available for download now.
Hunting for Cosmic-Ray Origins with SuperTIGER
The SuperTIGER experiment flew over Antarctica for 55 days, collecting millions of galactic cosmic rays. What can it tell us about the origins of these high-energy particles?
Investigating One of the Strongest Starbursts in the Universe
Astrobites reports on an extreme distant galaxy that has one of the highest star formation densities of any known galaxy in the universe.
An Exoplanet Spinning Up Its Star
A recently discovered, unusual hot Jupiter may be causing its star to spin faster than it should.
Using LISA to Learn How Pairs of Black Holes Formed
How are black-hole binaries built? Upcoming observations of gravitational waves from these systems may be able to reveal their origins.
Could Ultracool Dwarfs Have Sun-Like Activity?
Sun-like stars have magnetic cycles that regulate their flares, starspots, and other activity. But what about stars much cooler and smaller than the Sun?
Modest Chaos in the Early Solar System
Astrobites reports on how our solar system may have evolved into the structure we see today.
Featured Image: The Simulated Collapse of a Core
This stunning snapshot is from a complex computer simulation of a core-collapse supernova.
2016 AAS WorldWide Telescope Competition
Want to share astronomy by making a tour, interactive experience, or video using WorldWide Telescope? You should — and then you should enter it in the first WorldWide Telescope Competition!
A Pulsar and White Dwarf in an Unexpected Orbit
The eccentric orbit of a low-mass white dwarf around a millisecond pulsar defies expectations of how binaries like this form.
A Long Time Ago Around a Star Far, Far Away…
Astrobites reports on one of the most distant planets ever discovered, at nearly 10,000 light-years away from Earth.