Seeing Stars: Juicing up JWST with 5000x Magnification
We pointed JWST at a galaxy magnified 5000 times by the universe–what did we learn by seeing the unseeable?
Surfing the (Cosmic) Web
How astronomers used the largest JWST survey to build a new map of the Universe
Little Red Dots and Shaq’s Huge Feet
Little Red Dots may just be the Shaqs of the galaxy world: extreme and impressive, but not a new kind of object.
We’re Going to Steal the Moon (For Gravitational Waves)
The authors of today’s bite explore how lunar mountains and crust can act as the perfect detector for detecting ripples in spacetime.
Guest: Re‑envisioning Galaxy Morphology with Sparse Autoencoders
Euclid is delivering millions of galaxy images, far too many for humans to classify by hand. A new approach uses sparse autoencoders to uncover the hidden morphological features inside deep learning models, revealing both familiar structures and entirely new ones.
They Grow Up So Fast: Meet The Youngest Confirmed RR Lyrae Variable Star
Astronomers have discovered an RR Lyrae variable star inside an open cluster for the first time! But this oddball star just might end up challenging our understanding of how RR Lyraes evolve.