Should we build an optical interferometer on the moon?
This image from the report shows permanently shadowed regions on the lunar South Pole. These regions could be desirable locations...
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Euclid peers through dark cloud LDN 1641’s dusty veil
Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Schirmer (MPIA, Heidelberg) This shimmering view of interstellar gas and dust was captured...
Solar Orbiter provides first glimpse of the sun’s polar magnetic field in motion
The magnetic network on the solar surface leaves imprints in the chromosphere above. In images of this region taken by...
Are the cosmic voids truly empty?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If we take out all the matter, neutrinos, dark matter, cosmic rays, and radiation from the...
Are there different types of black holes? New method puts Einstein to the test
At the current resolution of telescopes, black holes predicted by different theories of gravity still look very similar. Future telescopes...
Picture of universe getting clearer—but much remains unknown
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we...
Trying to find baby planets swaddled in dust
These are high-resolution ALMA images showing dust in protostellar disks, including some circumbinary disks. All of the disks are at...
Want to find more supernovae? Follow the light
This figure from the research illustrates some of the results. The x-axis is time after explosion, and the y-axis is...
Unprecedented black hole flare spotted 10 billion light-years away
This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the...
Simulations suggest the early universe helped black holes grow big, but not in the long run
Illustration of a black hole growing at an extremely fast (super-Eddington) rate. Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld At the heart of the...