Snake (on a Plane) in the Clouds
A report on the characteristics of a new ultra-faint dwarf found in the Magellanic Bridge, in the constellation Hydrus.
Has Anyone Found a Lost Comet?!
Comet D/Lexell has been lost to memory since its discovery in 1770. Can modern astronomical methods track it down?
Testing the Limits of Gravity at Mercury
By studying the precise movements of NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft around Mercury we can constrain some of the fundamental parameters of general relativity.
No dust ring required around Proxima Centauri
What is responsible for the excess radio emission from our nearest star, Proxima Centauri? No alien radio stations required!
A long time ago in a quasar far, far away…
The most distant quasar yet discovered illuminates the early universe…
Imaged Companion Drives Spiral Arms in Disk
Using 14 years of high resolution near-infrared imaging, radio observations of molecular gas, and a hydrodynamic simulation the authors show that spiral arms seen in the protoplanetary disk around HD 100453 A are caused by its M-dwarf companion.