Examining Earendel: Is the Most Distant Lensed Star Actually a Cluster?
An incredible beacon from the first billion years of the universe, Earendel has been touted as the most distant single star ever seen — but it might not be a single star at all.
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Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Emission on the Extragalactic Express: A Mystery
Astrobites reports on the three galactic suspects in the case of an ultra-high-energy neutrino.
Potential Discovery of a World Next Door
JWST provides new evidence that one of our nearest neighbor stars, Alpha Centauri A, might host a giant planet in its habitable zone.
Supermassive Black Holes and Stripped Subgiants: Significant Signals for Future Gravitational Wave Detectors
When a supermassive black hole captures a significantly smaller object, the interaction could produce gravitational waves that have not yet been detected. A new study explores such events and how future gravitational wave detectors may be able to feel them for years to come.
Distant Little Red Dot Hosts a Huge (and Growing) Black Hole
The “little red dot” CAPERS-LRD-z9 is the most distant object to show the characteristic broad emission lines of fast-moving gas around a black hole.
What’s Going On Inside GJ 486b?
Astrobites reports on a warm, rocky exoplanet and what might be hidden beneath its atmosphere.
Blown Away by the Winds of NGC 4151
New observations from the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) show the multilayered winds of NGC 4151 in a whole new light.
Get a Kick Out of This: Researchers Waited 15 Years to Measure a Neutron Star’s Journey
Worth the wait: using observations separated by 15 years, researchers have clocked the speed of a neutron star flying through space and shed light on how these stellar remnants are launched by supernova explosions.
Monthly Roundup: Astronomy in the News
Catch up on recent astronomy news: a stellar navigation experiment, a doomed planet, an icy protostar, and a mysterious radio source.
The Black Hole Tango: Kicks and Spins in Hierarchical Mergers
Astrobites reports on the intricate spin distributions created by recoil kicks from merging black holes.
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.
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.