
The Haunting of Boötes’ Backyard
In today’s bite, find out what’s haunting the constellation Boötes and how it can revolutionize our understanding of the smallest galaxies!
In today’s bite, find out what’s haunting the constellation Boötes and how it can revolutionize our understanding of the smallest galaxies!
A group of galaxies — some rich in dark matter, and some lacking dark matter completely — could be explained by a violent, destructive event from their past.
In today’s paper, astronomers look for meandering modern-day analogues of the ancient building blocks of supermassive black holes.
Stellar streams are beautiful structures that trace the dark matter distribution of a galaxy. Today’s paper looks beyond our Milky Way for streams in external galaxies.
A powerful new tool combines data from Gaia and the Hubble Space Telescope and accurately measures how stars move on the plane of the sky. Find out how it’s done in today’s Astrobite!
Today’s authors find that the edge of the Milky Way’s neighborhood might not be so empty after all.