By carefully monitoring and taking spectra of artificial objects orbiting Earth, researchers have shown how easily some of these objects might be confused for natural objects like asteroids.
Modeling suggests that the observed gaps in the stellar sequence of open clusters are the result of small-number statistics and other factors, not evidence of the radiative–convective boundary.
The disks surrounding accreting black holes are dense enough for plasma physics effects to be important; new research shows that disks can produce strong iron emission, potentially explaining certain observations.
A new catalog uses deep Hubble Space Telescope data of four Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) fields to provide redshift estimates and physical properties for more than 150,000 galaxies.
A supernova at a distance of 163 light-years from a planetary system can eject half of all objects less than 1 cm; nearer supernovae can remove objects up to 100 meters in size.
A wide-reaching meta-analysis of coronal magnetic field models finds that all of models studied fail to reproduce the boundaries of coronal holes seen in extreme-ultraviolet images.