Water Vapor Around a Sizzling Supergiant: High-Resolution Spectroscopy of B[e] Supergiant LHA 115-S 18
Researchers have detected water vapor around a B[e] supergiant star for the first time, indicating a likely binary companion for LHA 115-S 18.
Enhancing the Sharpest Images
Event Horizon Telescope images are already some of the sharpest in all of astronomy. A new algorithm might be able to squeeze even more information out of them with complex statistical modeling.
Astrobites reports on a study of galaxies that are on the brink of entering their “quiet” phase.
A comet tangled with a coronal mass ejection and lost part of its tail in the process.
JWST examines one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way, where two massive protoclusters are shaping 10,000 solar masses of gas into new stars.
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Astrobites reports on an intriguing new object that may be an early universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon.
Researchers investigate the possibility that the off-center black hole and double nucleus of NGC 4486B can be traced to a recent supermassive black hole merger.
A recent study uses high-resolution JWST observations to perform an atmospheric analysis of a rare exoplanet orbiting a dead star.