A Protoplanetary Disk with a Tail
The sites of planet formation seem to be anything but orderly and a recent discovery may help explain the observed wide variety of exoplanet configurations.
Understanding how massive star clusters form in our Universe
Today’s paper looks at how young massive star clusters are expected to form.
Looking for a dark matter needle in an X-ray stack
Can an unexplained signal found inside multiple galaxy clusters tell us something about dark matter? Find out about a tantalising indirect detection by X-ray astronomers.
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?
Satellites of satellites should exist. Let’s go look for them.
Today’s paper makes predictions for the yet-to-be-observed dwarf galaxy population around Andromeda’s satellite galaxy, M33. It provides scientific justification for a future mission with WFIRST.