Solving the Mystery of Varying Red Giants
Scientists have long puzzled over slow and regular variations in the brightness of many evolved giant stars. Have we now found an explanation?
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Where We Might Find Life
As we develop the tools to search for life’s signatures in exoplanet atmospheres, where should we look first to maximize our chances? Astrobites reports.
Raising Tides on Jupiter with Its Moons
What happens to the inside of a gas-giant planet as a consequence of the gravitational pulls of its moons?
A Colorful Image of a Black Hole
The first ever image of a black hole just got even more detailed! Astrobites reports.
Featured Image: A Bent Radio Jet in a Galaxy Cluster
New observations provide a detailed look at radio emission from a powerful jet within the Perseus galaxy cluster.
As Different As Day and Night
Finding water on exoplanets is exciting enough, but we may also be able to use signs of water to learn more about a planet’s atmosphere.
Redefining a Heavy Collision
Could the biggest — literally — gravitational-wave discovery yet be something other than what it initially seemed?
A New Kind of Changing-Look AGN?
Astrobites explores the unusual X-ray properties of an active galactic nucleus recently caught changing its appearance.
Switching It Up with Solar Switchbacks
Scientists may have an explanation for the strange kinks recently observed in streams of plasma flowing off of the Sun.
Multimessenger Cosmology of the Future
The collisions of neutron stars and black holes may be the key to unlock precise measurements of the cosmological parameters that describe our universe.
Flares from the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
In 2019, Sgr A* woke up to emit a series of burps. What meal led to this indigestion?
Disentangling Milky Way Evolution
Chemical tagging without chemical abundances? Astrobites shows how a neural network can disentangle stellar data to spot a star’s origins.