Playing football with galactic dust bunnies
Dust may not sound very exciting, but it’s incredibly important to astronomy. Today’s authors produce a 3D map of the Milky Way’s dust!
Dust may not sound very exciting, but it’s incredibly important to astronomy. Today’s authors produce a 3D map of the Milky Way’s dust!
Sometimes your $1.5 billion spacecraft becomes an interplanetary dustpan. Read today’s bite to learn more!
Today’s authors take a stab at building the first high-redshift infrared galaxy luminosity function!
Today’s paper presents “echoes” coming from a supernova in the nearby galaxy Centaurus A.
Massive blue galaxies in the early universe present a dusty puzzle. Is the dust in these galaxies being ejected, or is it squirreled away in giant molecular clouds?
Dust mapping with Gaia has changed our perspective on the sun’s neighborhood, but how do revelations about the nearby structure of dust fit in with our understanding of the Milky Way’s large scale skeletal structure?