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The Magnetic Menagerie of NGC 1097
In the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097, there’s more to the magnetic field than meets the eye.
Where in the galaxy is PSR J0837-2454?
Why does one pulsar seem to lie so far away from the Galactic plane?
Paradise for Life by the AGN Light
Supermassive black holes have a really nasty reputation for rendering galaxies uninhabitable, but this perception may be misguided. It’s possible that the radiation these vast beasts release while feasting could bring forth a bounty for life as we know it. Could organisms subsist on the light of an AGN sun?
When the stars in the sky act like big pizza pies, that’s a-starspots!
Do you like your star plain or with extra pepperoni? Starspots sit on the surface of a star like the pizza toppings on a pizza, and today’s astrobite looks at how starspot coverage changes for stars at different ~slices~ of their lifetimes.
The cold case of S0 galaxies: quiet passing or violent death?
Today’s paper looks at two types of lenticular galaxies — seemingly alike, they took very different evolutionary paths.
Uncovering a galaxy’s history, from half a Universe away
Today’s guest post explores a galaxy whose mysterious clump is puzzling astronomers who are trying to pinpoint its origin.
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