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What do enormous, fabulous slugs have to do with giant galaxy formation?

What do enormous, fabulous slugs have to do with giant galaxy formation?

by Olivia Cooper | Dec 13, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries

Before giant galaxies, it was all slugs, mammoths, and big nebulous blobs of emission: find out why in today’s astrobite!

Catching High Energy Photons Leaking from Holey Galaxies

Catching High Energy Photons Leaking from Holey Galaxies

by Olivia Cooper | Nov 9, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries

Today’s paper works to catch a leak with a new technique, using resolved Lyman-alpha line profiles to gain insight into the epoch of reionization

A Requiem for Dead Galaxies

A Requiem for Dead Galaxies

by Olivia Cooper | Sep 30, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries

Traces of magnified dust offer a requiem to early, dead galaxies that ran out of gas

Replacing our constellations with satellites

Replacing our constellations with satellites

by Olivia Cooper | Sep 10, 2021 | Climate Change, Current Events

As satellite constellations crowd our night sky, today’s authors advocate for space as a globally shared resource rather than an entity to be owned and controlled

An Extreme, Distant Quasar in the Cosmic House of Mirrors

An Extreme, Distant Quasar in the Cosmic House of Mirrors

by Olivia Cooper | Aug 19, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries

Step into the cosmic house of mirrors at this quasar party at dawn!

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