Aaand Boom Goes the Magnetar
Two collaborations, one bright, millisecond duration Galactic radio burst. Has the mystery of the source of fast radio bursts been solved?
Rocks Go Wild: How to Make a Solar System
How do you form Mercury, Venus, Earth AND Mars? The answer may surprise you! (or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Speeding up cosmological simulations by zooming on what’s important
Modern cosmology relies on large numerical simulations. However, creating them requires a lot of memory and computational time. Today’s paper describes a technique that can dramatically decrease the computational cost of simulations – by focusing on the most important parts of the simulation and reducing waste!
The Eldest Sibling of Our Milky Way
Gas before forming a disk galaxy: To be cool, or to be hot, that is the question.
When Tides Aren’t Enough
The orbits of some hot Neptunes are not as circular as they should be
Discovering the building blocks of nuclear star clusters
Today’s paper combines new observational data from Gaia with 20 years of multi-wavelength data of the compact dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, reveal a triplet system of star clusters in the centre.