The Strange Orbits of ‘Tatooine’ Planetary Disks
Two examples of aligned and misaligned protoplanetary disks around binary stars (circumbinary disks), observed with ALMA. Binary star...
Chandra Data Tests "Theory of Everything"
X-ray Images of Perseus Cluster
Astronomers used Chandra to look for extraordinarily low-mass "axion-like" particles in the...
Quasar Tsunamis Rip Across Galaxies
QUASAR OUTFLOWS ILLUSTRATION
Black Hole Team Discovers Path to Razor-Sharp Black Hole Images
Black Hole Team Discovers Path to Razor-Sharp Black Hole Images
GRACE, GRACE-FO Satellite Data Track Ice Loss at the Poles
Greenland's Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off the Denmark Strait in the background....
A Star-Bursting Galaxy Born from the Collision of Dwarfs
This 2.5 x 2.5 arcminute image shows VCC 848, a compact dwarf galaxy that scientists think formed from the merger of two smaller...
A New Theory of Magnetar Formation for Neutron Stars
Figure 1: 3D snapshots of the magnetic field lines in the convective zone inside a newborn neutron star. Inward (outward)...
Continued Gravitational-Wave Discoveries from Public Data
Numerical-relativity simulation of the first binary black-hole merger observed by the Advanced LIGO detector on September 14,...
