Old but gold: a huge primordial proto-cluster
In today’s posts we discuss observations of a super dense, massive and old proto-cluster and what it means to the Universe’s history
A beautiful, yet complicated painting: What is going on in the disk around HD 142527?
The spectacular disk around HD142527 is a carnival of spirals and gaps: is it all caused by a single massive companion?
The speeding binary that shouldn’t exist
A mysterious pair of stars speeding through the outskirts of our galaxy together puzzles astronomers
Yoga for dark matter: Making the Cold Dark Matter model more flexible
… and therefore more powerful. Describing dark matter as a fluid allows us to model dark matter candidates with great accuracy.
Supernova Archeology with Radioactive Eyes
Today’s bite looks at how the ratio of various elements can inform our view of what happens during a supernova.