How to Tell Space Rocks from Space Junk
One person’s space junk is another’s research opportunity: scientists study an artificial object mistaken for an asteroid to understand how to identify these objects in future surveys.
Astrobites reports on how astronomers use pulsating stars to look for stellar halos around ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, some of the smallest galaxies in the universe.
A new suite of supernova simulations allows researchers to find correlations between the properties of these cosmic explosions and properties of the stars they came from.
Cosmic Rays Near and Far
How do cosmic rays move through the galaxy? Thanks to data collected by the aging Voyager 1 spacecraft, astronomers are closer to finding out.
The cratered surfaces of our solar system’s moons record impacts reaching back billions of years. How do researchers measure the ages of these surfaces, and what can these ages tell us about how the moons formed?
Astrobites reports on a tragic final encounter between a supermassive black hole and a stellar neighbor that came a bit too close.
Take a moment to delve into three solar physics research articles with us today to learn how researchers are studying our home star.
If simulations “remember” the conditions they started with, that could complicate the modeling of magnetized accretion disks around supermassive black holes.
The merger of two stars can make a blue supergiant, suggesting that many of the galaxy’s brightest stars are not born, but made.