Double Disruption Dilemma: Exploring the Tidal Disruption Events of AT 2022dbl
A recently discovered tidal disruption event has astronomers investigating new ways in which stars may be ripped apart by supermassive black holes.
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Minding the Gaps in Solar Wind Data
A new method for handling data with significant gaps can be applied to extremely sparse datasets, such as Voyager data from the outer heliosphere.
You Shall Not Pass! Active Galactic Nucleus Jets Through the Interstellar Medium
Astrobites reports on simulations that improve our understanding of how jets from active galactic nuclei interact with the interstellar medium.
Exo-Saturns and Exo-Jupiters Are Within JWST’s Reach
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.
Citizen Science Born in the Pandemic: The Hubble Image Similarity Project
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.
Giving Justice to Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Mergers
Astrobites reports on how researchers are preparing for future detections of merging supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes.
Featured Image: Hubble and JWST Check Up on the BOAT Gamma-Ray Burst
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?
Finding Galaxies in the Dark: Using Globular Clusters to Identify Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies
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.
Monthly Roundup: The Supermassive Black Hole of Messier 87
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?
Duel of the Dual: The Mystery of a Quasar Pair
Astrobites reports on JWST observations of a mysterious binary quasar system from cosmic noon.
Planets Around Small Stars Even Less Likely to Have Atmospheres Than Previously Thought
The troubles continue for planets around the smallest and coolest stars: new research suggests that it’s even harder than previously suspected for these planets to hold on to their atmospheres.
NCIS JWST: Analyzing the Aftermath of the Bullet Cluster’s Collision
Astrobites reports on the famous Bullet Cluster — what JWST observations reveal about its complex merger history and the constraints these observations place on self-interacting dark matter.