A spiral of bright material circling a black core.
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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?

Tarantula Nebula
Astrobites

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 photograph of a heavily cratered moon on a black background.
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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.

Earth's clouds seen from space

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.

little red dots

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?

Beta Pictoris debris disk

Rings and gaps in TWA 7’s debris disk suggested a planet might be lurking nearby. JWST observations may have revealed the hidden world.

Messier 13

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.

JWST images of Earendel

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.