Astronomy
How were Supermassive Black Holes Already Forming and Releasing Powerful Jets Shortly After the Big Bang?
A series of studies has shown that the seeds of supermassive black holes and relativistic jets existed much sooner than…
Are the Gaps in These Disks Caused by Planets?
Astronomers like observing distant young stars as they form. Stars are born out of a molecular cloud, and once enough…
The heliosphere looks a lot weirder than we originally thought
Every second of every day, our sun spits out a stream of tiny high-energy particles, known as the solar wind.…
Highest Resolution Mosaic Image of the Surface of Bennu
NASA and the University of Arizona have released a stunning new global map of asteroid Bennu. At 2 inches (5…
Even More Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Discovered
The CHIME radio telescope array has detected nine new fast radio bursts on repeat, which are revealing things about this…
Following Comet Y1 ATLAS: the ‘Lost Comet’ of Spring
Got clear skies? If you’re like us, you’ve been putting the recent pandemic-induced exile to productive use, and got out…
Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden has Passed Away
The world recently lost another luminary, NASA astronaut Al Worden, who was part of the Apollo program and piloted the…
How Researchers Produce Sharp Images of a Black Hole
A new study by members of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has shown how new images of black…
Another Incredible Picture of Mars, This Time From a Region Just Outside Valles Marineris
An image taken by the MROs HiRISE camera showcases the types of terrain around part of Mars' Valles Marineris canyon…
Blazar Found Blazing When the Universe was Only a Billion Years Old
A team of European scientists have observed the most distant "blazar" to date, an active galaxy that was around when…