Baby Galaxies Love to Take 100-Million-Year Naps
Astrobites reports on the star-forming histories of early galaxies and galaxies that form their stars in bursts interspersed with lulls.
A recent study uses high-resolution JWST observations to perform an atmospheric analysis of a rare exoplanet orbiting a dead star.
Neutron stars contain some of the most extreme matter in the universe, and researchers are exploring a promising but challenging way to probe their interiors.
Astrobites reports on the detection of complex molecules around a protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Jets, variability, and neutrinos: dive into three recent investigations of active galactic nuclei.
An Impostor Explosion
Hoping to find the second kilonova to be detected in both gravitational waves and light, astronomers ended up with a supernova instead.
JWST’s mysterious little red dots may be evidence of black hole stars in the early universe.
Astrobites reports on whether a distant companion in a triple-star system could push the inner binary toward merging into a remnant object that emits fast radio bursts.
Observations of a galaxy cluster during the universe’s star-formation heyday give clues to the cluster’s history.