Today’s top story focuses on the Blue Ring Nebula, a phase of a star merger never seen before, providing missing link for merger progression
May 23rd: Cosmic Mystery Solved & Stellar Missing Link Discovered
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May 16th: Iceland Has a New Volcanic Fissure Erupting in Fagradalsfjall
After much “will it / won’t it” over the last few weeks in the wake of increased (and then decreased) seismic activity, an eruption in Iceland finally started with a brand new fissure near Fagradalsfjall
May 9th: Astronomers Discover 63 Galaxies in Protocluster
Astronomers researching the G237 protocluster find 63 galaxies within, all producing stars and more galaxies at a high rate, acting as a “shipyard” for their region of the cosmos
May 2nd: Federal Budget Cuts: An Extinction-level Event
This week we look at how the elimination of science programs, projects, datasets, and funding may be shaping into an extinction-level event for US Space-related sciences. Come cry with us.
Apr 25th: Magnetar Exhibits Bizarre Behavior, Identity Crisis
A radio-loud magnetar first observed in March suffered an apparent identity crisis, behaving like a pulsar until gradually settling into magnetar-like emissions in July.
Apr 18th: From the Beginning of the Universe to the Beginning of Spring, it’s All Science
Let’s take a fast-paced journey through all that’s new in space and astronomy, including dark energy news, the death of supersymmetry, a closer look at remoting sensing in Earth science, and tales from the launch pad.
Apr 11th: Space is Hard
Let’s take a fast-paced journey through all that’s new in space and astronomy, including new results from Perseverance Rover, Venusian Volcanism, Mars Sample Return (or not), Intuitive Machines’ failure to land upright
Apr 4th: The Book of Mars, Star Formation, & More
Time for news in space and astronomy, lets deep dive into Mars science. Also DESI takes a census of central black holes & star formation
Mar 28th: Star Formation Occurs in Competitive Environment
A survey of the stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula Cluster provides evidence that stars compete for material and their size.
Mar 21st: Overlooked Exoplanet Found by Citizen Scientists
Using data provided by the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project, volunteers found a possible large planet or brown dwarf orbiting its star.