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Who’s in the Driver’s Seat? Understanding the factors that drive the chemical evolution of galaxies
Over time, the universe evolved from a primordial soup of hydrogen and helium into the metal-rich environments of today. How exactly does the chemistry of galaxies evolve, and what processes drive this evolution?
A Vampire’s Sandwich Filled With Gas And Dust
This bite reports a serendipitous discovery of what is possibly the largest protoplanetary disk, which has an interesting shape.
Are Astronomy 101 Students Flat-Universers?
Today’s paper ventures into the realm of Astronomy Education Research, unpacking how students in ASTRO 101 courses think about the shape of the universe.
Could Merging Black Holes Wakeboard on Dark Matter?
In this Astrobite, the authors study the effects of dark matter on merging black hole binaries. As the black holes move through dark matter, they form wakes that slow them down, could this affect the gravitational waves released?
UR: Modeling Asteroids and Using Microwave Telescope Data to Constrain Thermophysical Properties
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Mariah Jones and her collaborators used data from the South Pole Telescope to constrain the thermal properties of an asteroid!
Here Comes the (other) Sun
How well do we know stars other than the Sun?
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