每一天，宇宙中都在上演著無數我們無法用肉眼看到的事件。天文學家用望遠鏡、探測器來收集來自宇宙中的“信使”（比如電磁波或引力波），透過分析這些信使，天文學家得知了許多宇宙奧秘。不久前，第237屆美國天文學會會議如期舉行，宣佈了一系列最新的發現。在這裡我們挑選了其中一些有趣的故事，其中包括髮現了最古老、最遙遠、最明亮的類星體。

#創作團隊：

文字：不二北斗

排版：雯雯子

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/a-tale-of-planetary-resurrection

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2021/news-2021-02

https://www.rit.edu/news/astronomers-dissect-anatomy-planetary-nebulae-using-hubble-space-telescope-images

https://www.sdss.org/press-releases/a-giant-meal-for-a-dwarf/

https://www.sdss.org/press-releases/the-milky-way-does-the-wave/

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/01/string-of-stars-in-milky-way-are-related/

https://www.sdss.org/press-releases/untangling-the-streamers-in-the-milky-way/

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/ASASSN14ko/

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-undergrads-discover-bright-lensed-galaxy-early-universe

https://news.arizona.edu/story/most-distant-quasar-discovered-sheds-light-how-black-holes-grow

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/01/11/gravitational-waves

https://www.ias.edu/news/2021/galactic-acceleration

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/01/13/building-a-giant-2d-map-of-the-universe-to-prepare-for-the-largest-3d-map/

1.Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

2.NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith-USRA、NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

3.NASA, ESA, STScI, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University)

4.ESA/Hubble、STScI, APOD/J. Schmidt; J. Kastner (RIT) et al.

5.John Blondin, North Carolina State University

6.Cheng et al. 2020

7.NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, SSC & Caltech

8.A. Price-Whelan

9.NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.、Michael Tucker (University of Hawai’i) and the AMUSING survey

10.Khullar et al

11.NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva

12.Tonia Klein/NANOgrav

13.IAS; Dana Berry

14.KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Legacy Imaging Survey