Astronomers Spy First Star-Forming Disk beyond the Milky Way
Making stars is a messy business. Although the process takes far longer than any human life span, we’ve sufficiently studied…
Astronomers May Have Witnessed Worlds in Collision
Long ago, around an otherwise unremarkable faraway star, two infant planets had an extraordinarily bad day. The two collided in…
Hoʻoleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxies, Astounds Astronomers
Cosmic cartographer Brent Tully was inspecting his team’s latest high-precision maps of the positions and motions of 56,000 galaxies in…
The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful, Astronomers Coined a New Term for It
Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain…