
A Magnetar Bursting with Mysteries
What caused the change in behavior of a certain magnetar? Crustal chaos, or magnetic field shifts?
What caused the change in behavior of a certain magnetar? Crustal chaos, or magnetic field shifts?
A team of astronomers has used sensitive radio arrays to probe the depths of dusty clouds and investigate the earliest stages of star formation.
Astrobites reports on the new CHIME/FRB catalog, which includes 536 fast radio bursts and a number of exciting new sources.
The most luminous objects in the universe can help us understand how supermassive black holes gained mass in the earliest galaxies.
Astronomers study remarkably Sun-like stars to understand how the Milky Way gets its heavy metals.
Elusive black hole binaries can arise from isolated pairs of stars or in the heart of dense star clusters — and gravitational waves can reveal their secrets.
Astrobites reports on what JWST might bring for detections of biosignatures in the atmospheres of exoplanets.
New models of the Sun’s magnetic field seek to solve a long-standing conflict between simulations and spacecraft observations.
What cosmic engine is accelerating particles to up to quadrillions of electronvolts?
Astronomers put Einstein’s famous theory of gravity to the test using a type of extreme stellar remnant not yet discovered when the theory was published in 1915.
Astrobites reports on the retrograde orbits of K2-290A’s two close-in planets. Could dynamical interactions in this triple star system have caused this misalignment?
Can machine learning help researchers find the tell-tale signs of solar flares hidden in mountains of data?