Hidden Pockets of Gems
A new image release from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the majority of the red stars in the Liller 1 globular cluster shining behind blue stars in the Milky Way’s disk.
Hot Jupiters Form in All Sorts of Ways
Astronomers measured the relative ages of hot Jupiters using data from the Gaia mission and discovered multiple planetary formation explanations.
Magnetic Poles Not Getting Ready to Flip
New magnetic field models predict that the Earth’s South Atlantic Anomaly will disappear in about 300 years and the poles will not flip.
Long Live the Fernanda Tortoise
A large female tortoise was discovered in the Galapagos back in 2019, and genetic testing revealed its a species thought to have gone extinct in 1906.
Mapping Yellowstone’s Hydrothermal Explosions
Researchers have analyzed cores taken from under and around Yellowstone Lake in order to map the craters of known hydrothermal explosions.
Second Repeating Fast Radio Burst Discovered
A second neutron star that repeatedly gives off fast radio bursts has been found with a companion that gives off constant, faint, radio emissions.
What’s Up: The Planets
The morning of Friday, June 24, just before sunrise, take a look at the ecliptic to see Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon all in a line.
Look Up While You Still Can – the “Stars” are Changing
A new article in Scientific American examines just how the planned constellations for companies like Starlink and OneWeb are affecting astronomy observations.
Radio Loud Star Lumbers Lazily
MeerKAT discovers a slowly rotating pulsar while piggybacking on other observations. With a rotational period of 76 seconds, this pulsar is the slowest found.
Percy and its Pet Rock
Back in February 2022, a lumpy rock found its way into one of the wheel wells on NASA’s Perseverance rover and has been there ever since.
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