MPE/MPG press release: eROSITA delivers the most comprehensive census of the high-energy Universe to date www.mpe.mpg.de/8215311/news... Article by Ramos-Ceja et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

eROSITA delivers the most comprehensive census of the high-energy Universe to date

The second eROSITA data release reveals 1.9 million pointlike and 64,000 extended X-ray sources, enhancing cosmic population studies.

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ESO press release: Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion www.eso.org/public/news/... Article by Montargès et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion - “The conclusion of a century-long quest”

At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a...

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CNRS/Strasbourg Observatory: Cosmic filaments shape star formation across the Universe astro.unistra.fr/en/2026/07/2... Article by Jego et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Cosmic filaments shape star formation across the Universe - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg

On scales of hundreds of millions of light-years, galaxies are distributed along a vast network of matter filaments known as the cosmic web. While it was already known that galaxies located near cosmi...

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Featured image: Multiwavelength view of the Hydra I cluster (Srivastava, A., et al., 2026, A&A, 711, A226) www.aanda.org/component/is...

NASA press release: NASA's Chandra Sees Black Hole Stirring "Pot" Containing Galactic Potato chandra.si.edu/press/26_rel... Article by Wang et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Uppsala Uni. press release: The Sun contains more silver than previously estimated www.uu.se/en/press/pre... Article by Caliskan et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

The Sun contains more silver than previously estimated – Uppsala University

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Highlight: Planetary formation tracks on the Hertzsprung--Russell diagram. Visualising the processes of giant planet growth by Benedikt Gottstein, Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Christoph Mordasini 2026, A&A, 711, A173 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...

Featured image: Cold atmosphere of COCONUTS-2b with JWST-MIRI/MRS (Kühnle, H., et al., 2026, A&A, 710, A355) www.aanda.org/component/is...

Highlight: A quiescent galaxy in a gas-rich cosmic web node at z∼3 by Weichen Wang, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Marta Galbiati, Andrea Travascio, Antonio Pensabene, et al. 2026, A&A, 711, A84 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...

Kyushu Uni. press release: Capturing the cosmic ‘drift’ before a star is born www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researche... Article by Arzoumanian et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Capturing the cosmic ‘drift’ before a star is born | Research Results | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY

Researchers observe the velocity difference between two molecules in a prestellar core, elucidating the process of early star formation

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MPIA press release: Young Giant Gas Planet Beta Pic b refuses to reveal its origin www.mpia.de/news/science... Article by von Stauffenberg et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Young Giant Gas Planet Beta Pic b Refuses to Reveal its Origin

New findings on Beta Pic b's atmosphere challenge traditional methods of tracing giant gas planets' formation locations.

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Featured image: High-precision Euclid photometry of NGC 6397 (Griggio, M., et al., 2026, A&A, 711, A88) www.aanda.org/component/is...

ESA press release: Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe www.esa.int/Science_Expl... Articles by Yang et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004... and Belladitta et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe

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Highlight: Extremely ultraviolet-bright starbursts at the end of cosmic reionization by R. Marques-Chaves, D. Schaerer, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, et al. 2026, A&A, 711, A112 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...

Featured image: JWST view of a UV-bright galaxy at z > 6 (Marques-Chaves, R., et al., 2026, A&A, 711, A112) www.aanda.org/component/is...

NASA & ESA press release: ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra space telescopes examine Milky Way at arms' length chandra.si.edu/press/26_rel... www.esa.int/Science_Expl... Article by Vaia et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

It’s the final day of #EAS2026Lausanne! If you’ve been meaning to stop by the A&A stand #9, today is your chance! Come and meet: ☕ 10:30–11:00 Marc Huertas-Company A&A Associate Editor Today’s the day – SS44 starts at 13:15

ESO press release: "Beyond the limit": one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky www.eso.org/public/news/... Article by Hainaut: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

"Beyond the limit": one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky

A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have “devastating consequences...

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Join us for a coffee and a chat at the A&A stand #9 at #EAS2026Lausanne today. ☕ 10:30–11:00 Pierre-Alain Duc @padastr.bsky.social A&A Board & Executive Committee Member ☕ 16:30–17:00 João Alves @joaoalves.bsky.social A&A Letters Editor-in-Chief Don’t forget…SS44 is tomorrow!

IAA-CSIC press release: One of the faintest galaxies around Andromeda has been discovered: Andromeda XXXVI www.iaa.csic.es/english/one-... Article by Sakowska et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Who’s at the A&A stand 9 at #EAS2026Lausanne today? ☕ 10:30–11:00 Arūnas Kučinskas Chairperson, A&A Board of Directors ☕ 16:30–17:00 David Elbaz A&A Managing Editor Only two days until SS44.

Featured image: Gallery of strong gravitational lensing systems discovered in the Q1 dataset Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA; M. Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company, J.-C. Cuillandre; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO - "Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1)" Special issue, 2026, A&A, 711 www.aanda.org/component/is...

A&A community survey reveals strong support for quality, fairness and human oversight in scientific publishing Read more: www.aanda.org/2026-press-r...

A great first day at #EAS2026Lausanne. Great to see so many people stopping by the A&A stand with questions about the journal. Best of all, they’ve been able to put them directly to A&A editors and Board members. Exactly the conversations we were hoping for! @aanda-journal.bsky.social

Planning your coffee breaks at #EAS2026Lausanne? Drop by the A&A stand 9 to meet: ☕ 10:30–11:00 Françoise Combes A&A Associate Editor ☕ 16:30–17:00 Arūnas Kučinskas Chairperson, A&A Board of Directors Have you added SS44 to your programme?

As #EAS2026Lausanne gets underway, A&A has published the full results of its community survey. ~3,000 astronomers from 69 countries shared their views on peer review, Open Access, AI and the future of scientific publishing. 📄 Editorial: urlr.me/pZ9jPj 📰 News: urlr.me/Af4a5h @joaoalves.bsky.social

Heading to #EAS2026 next week? Come and find us at Stand #9. Members of the A&A editorial team and Board of Directors will be with us throughout the week. And don’t miss SS44: AI and Open Access in Modern Astronomy Publishing on Friday 3rd. @joaoalves.bsky.social @edpsciences.bsky.social

IPGP press release: What can the light from Vesta’s avalanches tell us? www.ipgp.fr/en/what-can-... Article by Nguyen et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

What can the light from Vesta’s avalanches tell us? - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

A study conducted at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris uses images from NASA’s Dawn mission and a Bayesian inversion of the Hapke photometric model ...

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KU Leuven press release: Will Earth survive the Sun's death? New study by KU Leuven astronomers suggests it might fys.kuleuven.be/ster/news/20... Article by Esseldeurs et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Will Earth survive the Sun's death? New study suggests it might.

When the Sun reaches the end of its life in about five billion years, it will expand into a giant star hundreds of times larger than it is today. For decades, astronomers have debated what this means ...

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ICE-CSIC press release: A study determines the precise speed of the star that will meet the Sun in 1.3 million years ice.csic.es/news/news-pr... Article by Fernandez-Puig et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...