Astronomers have spent more than a decade watching a compact stellar remnant called P13 slip into near silence and then surge ...
Earth, Mars and Venus are three planets with very different histories. Active plate tectonics, the presence of a liquid ocean, and teeming life characterize the Earth. Mars has a tenuous atmosphere, ...
We obtained multi-epoch mid-infrared (MIR) observations of the star forming region IC 348 using the Spitzer Space Telescope. Among the roughly 300 pre-main-sequence objects in the cluster, the ...
Black holes, those cosmic objects from which even light cannot escape, remain by definition invisible to our eyes. How then can we understand their behavior? A team of astrophysicists has taken ...