In an era of increasing reliance on computers to classify astrophysical imagery, what role do humans have to play? Today’s paper examines human biases in visual searches for gravitational lensing.
JWST has found the oldest galaxy cluster ever, and studying it might give us some clues about the history of modern-day clusters.
A unique galaxy suggests a novel method to search for rare stars, which may have been previously overlooked and misidentified.
Take a closer look at one of the galaxies in JWST’s first image and learn why it looks like it’s lighting up the party like a firework!
Brand new data could force us to re-think how galaxies form and evolve in the early Universe — but there’s no need to panic!
Astronomers have just found Jupiter’s twin in a distant solar system. Their discovery technique may surprise you, and might just be the most important method for discovering Earth-like exoplanets in the next decade…