Highlights

Some science highlights based on this year's research results follow:

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures first-ever images of asteroid collisions around nearby star

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have captured the first direct images of catastrophic asteroid collisions in another planetary system — a discovery that provides unique insight into how planets form and…

NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a…

The Power of Fine-structure Lines to Unravel the Mysteries of Galaxy Evolution

Infrared fine-structure lines (FSLs) are essential tools for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies, particularly at high redshifts. These lines, which arise from the de-excitation of collisionally-excited…

NASA's IXPE Solves Mystery of X-Ray Creation in Black Holes

The famous space mission IXPE was launched in December 2021 and is a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency, with scientific partners in 12 countries. It was built to reveal the secrets of the most extreme objects in the universe…

Discovery of a Population of X-ray luminous starbursts with eROSITA

The eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array)…