A Dusty Disk Points to a Potential Planet
Rings and gaps in TWA 7’s debris disk suggested a planet might be lurking nearby. JWST observations may have revealed the hidden world.
Monthly Roundup: Science of the Sun
Researchers search for the tiniest coronal jets, explore the Sun’s behavior from centuries ago, and examine space weather forecasts in this month’s Roundup.
How Galaxies Grow Up
A massive survey of images collected by JWST is shedding light on how galaxies grow and evolve.
Researchers explore how the tilt of merging galaxies can impact the eventual collision of their supermassive black holes.
Astrobites reports on a new method to find the galaxies hosting the universe’s first generation of stars.
Interacting galaxies, sparkling starbursts, and strange structures abound in new images from the Hubble Arp Galaxy Survey.
Researchers have detected water vapor around a B[e] supergiant star for the first time, indicating a likely binary companion for LHA 115-S 18.
Enhancing the Sharpest Images
Event Horizon Telescope images are already some of the sharpest in all of astronomy. A new algorithm might be able to squeeze even more information out of them with complex statistical modeling.
Astrobites reports on a study of galaxies that are on the brink of entering their “quiet” phase.