In 1972 astronomers witnessed the first full galaxy collision, not by looking up at the sky but by peering at a small screen in a very large box. The methods and implications are enshrined in modern astrophysics, but it is the results themselves that still truly amaze, stunning simple images of galaxies, playfully strewn and joyfully picked apart. A full exploration of a galaxy of a scale not matched before or since.
New astronomy is published every day, but are we actually learning from it?
How an artificial neural network can be trained to classify stars into spectral types, using only a single broad-band image.
Today’s ‘beyond’ bite takes you back to 2000, when a new telescope meant to survey the night sky takes the astrophysics community by storm.
A Happy New Year from everyone at Astrobites! Read on to find out about our fun events, collaborations and top-read articles in the last 12 months!
A recently proposed theory of gravity that got the astrophysical community’s attention is put to tests by observations. Does it succeed? Let’s find out!