Featured Image: A Starry Cigar
Recent JWST observations highlight narrow filaments and bubble-like structures in the nearby starburst galaxy Messier 82.
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Monthly Roundup: Where Elements Are Made
Three recent articles examine the making of heavy elements in supernovae, collapsars, and neutron star mergers.
JWST Spies a Debris Disk
JWST has detected a faint debris disk surrounding the M-dwarf star Fomalhaut C, marking just the fifth scattered-light debris disk detected around an M dwarf.
Vulcan II: The Wrath of Stellar Activity
Astrobites reports on a purported exoplanet whose uncertain signal may instead be a sign of stellar activity.
Modeling the Unknown: A New Tool for Radio Bursts
How do you model an observation when you aren’t sure of its source? Radio astronomers have a new answer to that question: a tool called “fitburst.”
Seeking the Sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays
New research examines whether the sources of the highest-energy photons could also be the sources of the highest-energy charged particles.
To Inspiral or Not to Inspiral
Astrobites reports on efforts to detect the shrinking orbits of close-in hot-Jupiter exoplanets.
Probing for Rocks in an Ice Giant’s Core
How much of Uranus’s icy core is made of rock? Researchers propose a new method to make this measurement using a probe of the Uranian atmosphere.
Studying a Guest Star’s Annual Appearances
With T Coronae Borealis expected to rise to naked-eye visibility any day now, recurrent novae are in the news. To learn more about these events, check out today’s article about a recurrent nova in a neighboring galaxy.
Huge Survey vs. Tiny Space Junk
One of the largest surveys of the sky is about to begin. But will tiny bits of space junk doom its carefully laid plans even before the first images are taken?
Little Red Dots and Big Black Holes
Astrobites reports on a study that estimates how many galaxies with massive black holes are likely to be present in the early universe.
Featured Image: A Disk Disturbed by Stellar Explosions
Simulations explore how supernovae can shake up and eject gas from a starburst galaxy.