You think stars form quietly? Think again. In the early universe, galaxies were packed with star-forming clumps. Some disrupted quickly, while others survived. Today’s paper reveals which lived and which died young.
What happens when you take a dwarf galaxy and stretch it out to the size of the Milky Way? And how do these strange galaxies shut down star formation? Today’s authors search for ultra-diffuse galaxies which have recently stopped forming stars to find an answer.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are small molecules consisting of rings of carbons, ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. However, PAHs do not seem to be present in protoplanetary disks around the youngest stars. Today’s paper tries to understand why that is.
In today’s paper, the authors use their Gradient Technique to estimate the plane of sky magnetic fields in several bright clusters.
Do galaxies shut off star formation from the inside-out or the outside-in? And what does that tell us about their history?
Today Astrobites is featuring results from the DESI DR2, published today in PRJ! In Part 3, we discuss 2 additional papers using the BAO measurement to perform additional analyses.