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How irregular rotation can change a galaxy’s metal content
It’s difficult to tell how the individual stars of a galaxy rotate. What can we find out just from their metal content?
New Horizons Images Show Fewer Small Kuiper Belt Objects than Expected
High resolution images from New Horizons of the surfaces of Pluto and Charon show ancient craters, but fewer than astronomers expected.
Halo assembly bias rides a gravitational tide
The local gravitational tides are really good at connecting the properties of dark matter halos to the cosmic web.
Putting Supermassive Black Holes on the Scale
A novel approach to estimate their mass may help reveal the relationship between supermassive black holes and the galaxies they inhabit.
Look! A Lensing!
Gaia can do astrometry very well. And it turns out it can also help us observe lensings.
Hunting for Stellar Streams
A newly discovered stellar stream may be the long-searched for tidal debris from the Milky Way’s largest globular cluster.
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