Featured Image: Mother’s Day Superstorms
In May 2024, the Sun put on a powerful display of solar storms, and researchers have examined the source of all this activity to understand why.
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Escaping the Dust Trap: Simulations of Dust Dynamics in Protoplanetary Disks
The dust in protoplanetary disks is subject to complicated dynamical processes that impact planet formation. Recent simulations suggest that dust may be more freely moving within disks with planets than previously thought.
Betelgeuse’s Companion Star May Have Been Seen at Last
Finally found: using speckle imaging, researchers have spotted what is likely the predicted 1.6-solar-mass companion to the red supergiant Betelgeuse.
A GLIMPSE of the First Galaxies?
Astrobites reports on very deep JWST observations and the hunt for the first galaxies in the universe.
How a Black Hole Collision Could Explain the Milky Way’s S-Stars
What’s responsible for the haphazard orbits of the stars closest to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole? A second black hole, perhaps.
Written in the Gas: Jet Feedback in a Voorwerp Galaxy
Astrobites reports on the origins of the unusual green structure surrounding the active galaxy NGC 5972.
Astronomers Spot Possible Disk in Rubin Observatory First-Look Image
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 Candidate Direct-Collapse Black Hole in the Infinity Galaxy
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.
Featured Image: Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs in a Class of Their Own?
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.
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.
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.