Hats Off to a Spectroscopic Study of Sombrero Galaxy Globular Clusters
You really have to tip your hat to the authors of today’s bite, who closely studied the dynamics and metallicities of the globular clusters of M104.
Failure is Sometimes an Option: Supernovae and Star formation in Globular Clusters
Recent research indicates that some supernova fail to ever explode. Today’s authors study what this means for our understanding of iron enrichment and star formation in nearby globular clusters.
Red Giants Have it All: Dark Matter Constraints from Stellar Evolution
How can astronomers use existing understandings of stellar evolution to better study dark matter?
Could binaries grow the globular cluster family tree?
The presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters has puzzled astronomers for decades. Today’s paper investigates whether binary stellar mergers could explain this strange phenomenon!
What Causes Extended Main Sequence Turnoff and Red Clumping in Stellar Evolution?
In today’s post, guest author Zachary Pleska breaks down a recent study on the globular cluster NGC 419 and why some of its stars don’t evolve as expected!
The Milky Way’s biggest stellar-mass black hole? In MY unreleased Gaia data? It’s more likely than you think!
Gaia’s fourth data release won’t be publicly available until the end of 2025. Today’s paper reports a discovery from the preliminary data that was just too exciting to keep secret!