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A protoplanetary disk on its side
What does a disk around a binary star look like? One possibility, recently observed around a young star for the first time, is that it is flipped on its side—its rotation is perpendicular to the orbit of the binary system!
Reading the Epic of Reionization
Observations of dim galaxies lensed by foreground clusters provides a way of measuring the progression of reionization.
Three new pictures of the ancient Universe
Massive astronomy surveys reveal previously undiscovered structures. What can three new globular clusters tell us about the ancient Universe?
Simulating an Extreme TNO on the Road to Planet Nine
The most extreme Solar System object was recently discovered, offering some clues about the mysterious Planet Nine.
Can we a-void the Hubble tension with local voids?
Cosmologists revisit an idea for addressing the Hubble tension: that a local void is messing with our measurements along the cosmic distance ladder.
Connecting galaxy properties to their star-formation histories
Star-forming galaxies form stars at different rates. Could this be the model that reveals the underlying physics?
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