The Search for the First Stars to Light Up the Universe
Astrobites reports on whether JWST is capable of achieving one of its main goals: finding the very first stars in the universe.
Scars from a Black Hole
Say a star wandered close enough to a black hole to be partially ripped apart, but lived to tell the tale. What does the rest of its life look like?
A Dust Curve That Breaks the Mold
Astobites reports on a surprising dust curve in a distant galaxy that challenges what we know about cosmic dust.
A Close Look at an Ancient Moon
Researchers present the first-ever millimeter-wavelength map of Callisto, the coldest and most weather-worn of Jupiter’s major moons.
Astrobites reports on how clouds might actually be a good thing when it comes to detecting biosignatures with NASA’s proposed next-generation space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
Small in size and glowing red, little red dots have been confusing astronomers since their discovery by JWST. What are the origins of these distant galaxies, and what have researchers learned so far?
Rings and gaps in TWA 7’s debris disk suggested a planet might be lurking nearby. JWST observations may have revealed the hidden world.
Astrobites reports on how we might be able to observe gravitational wave signals from intermediate-mass black holes in binary systems with stellar-mass black holes.
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.