For just the second time, researchers have observed an Earth-impacting meteroroid in multiple passbands prior to the object impacting Earth; this provides a wealth of data about this small near-Earth object.
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An examination of the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) and standard and normal evolution (SANE) states of an accretion flow around a black hole demonstrates the luminosity and energy spectra of the two models.
After three decades of searching without success, researchers have at last detected emission from molecular gas — carbon monoxide, specifically — in the largest spiral galaxy known.
Data for 4,726 galaxies with redshifts between 0.6 and 1 allow for a determination of the ultraviolet luminosity function, which illuminates the sources of ionizing radiation during that period of the universe’s history.
An analysis of 40,000 red supergiant stars and asymptotic giant branch stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds provides valuable information on the dust production rates of these galaxies.
Particles likely inhabited polar orbits around the newborn Earth–Moon system until the two bodies were separated by roughly 10 Earth radii; at that point, as is the case today, stable polar orbits no longer existed.