Monthly Roundup: Astronomy in the News
Catch up on recent astronomy news: a stellar navigation experiment, a doomed planet, an icy protostar, and a mysterious radio source.
Astrobites reports on the intricate spin distributions created by recoil kicks from merging black holes.
In May 2024, the Sun put on a powerful display of solar storms, and researchers have examined the source of all this activity to understand why.
The dust in protoplanetary disks is subject to complicated dynamical processes that impact planet formation. Recent simulations suggest that dust may be more freely moving within disks with planets than previously thought.
Finally found: using speckle imaging, researchers have spotted what is likely the predicted 1.6-solar-mass companion to the red supergiant Betelgeuse.
A GLIMPSE of the First Galaxies?
Astrobites reports on very deep JWST observations and the hunt for the first galaxies in the universe.
What’s responsible for the haphazard orbits of the stars closest to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole? A second black hole, perhaps.
Astrobites reports on the origins of the unusual green structure surrounding the active galaxy NGC 5972.
One of the first-look images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory contained a rare find: a candidate circumstellar or protoplanetary disk in a region where few such disks have been discovered.