Brian Koberlein

Neutrinos don’t interact strongly with regular matter.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Illustration of a binary neutron star merger just as the two stars make contact.

Hailey Nelson/ Arizona State University Artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole at the center of a radio galaxy launching powerful jets all the way into the galaxy’s circumgalactic medium.

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NASA Hubble Hubble image of the El Gordo supercluster with the estimated dark matter highlighted in blue.

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Solar Dynamics Observatory Limb darkening observed during the transit of Venus.

Hui Yang (University of Illinois) and NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vast nebula called NGC 604, which is rich in helium.

NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI); Science: Manisha Caleb (SIfA) Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were able to study the host galaxy of the most distant known fast radio burst (FRB).

Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Stylized illustration of a neutrino hitting a block of ice.

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Anto Lonappan and Brian Keating, made with AI assistance Visualization of the rotation of E-modes to B-modes by cosmic birefringence.

NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA Artist’s concept depicts a tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black hole.

NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio The Earth’s center of mass drifts by millimeters over the years.

NASA/SDO Images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory highlight the appearance of the Sun at solar minimum (left, Dec. 2019) versus solar maximum (right, May 2024).

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Dale Kocevski (Colby College) A sample of Little Red Dots observed by JWST’s NIRCam detector.

NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI) This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object, a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Ariadna Uxue Palomino Ylla, Nagoya University Illustration of a stylized black hole and the rindown pattern emitted when black holes merge.

Wikipedia user Віщун Illustration of a Dyson swarm - a large number of independent constructs orbiting in a dense formation around the star.

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ESA/Gaia/DPAC Image of the Milky Way showing the locations of three black holes.

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Artistic impression of the double white dwarf binary eRASSU J0608.

Daniëlle Futselaar (artsource.nl) / Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy Illustration of merging black holes and their effect on pulsars and Earth.

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image of a centaur object looking very comet-like.

Visualization by Arpit Arora and Adrian Price-Whelan.

StarryEarth, CC BY-NC 2.0 A column of zodiacal light stretches skyward beyond Mount Teide in the Canary Islands.

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Maggie Chiang for Simons Foundation Illustration of two black holes about to merge.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Illustration of a quantum gravity calculation between the Earth and Moon.

NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Infographic describing the best current theory on the evolution of PBHs.

CMG Lee A Venn Diagram of how the main theories of physics are interconnected.

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Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT In this illustration a quark zooms through quark-gluon plasma, creating a wake in the plasma.

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Simulation of the gravitational lensing of starlight by a binary black hole.

Vladimir Vustyansky / NASA This illustration depicts a conceptual Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Moon’s far side.

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NASA/GSFC Illustration the evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang to today.