Memoirs of a Galaxy
Today’s bite explores how we can look at the stellar haloes of galaxies to reconstruct their past merger and accretion events.
A lonely little galaxy at the edge of our neighborhood
Today’s authors use machine learning to discover a lone wolf on the edge of the Milky Way’s neighborhood.
UR: Exploring Galaxies from the Epoch of Reionization – The Effect of Neutral Hydrogen on Reionizing Photons
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Lauren Elicker studied light from some of the most distant observable galaxies to better understand how our universe was reionized!
Carnivalgoing galaxies and a billion dollar guessing game
An astronomer and a galaxy walk into a carnival stand… check out today’s bite to see how this one ends!
A cosmic game of LEGO
In today’s paper, learn how astronomers can identify merging galaxies and investigate the importance of these collisions over cosmic time.
How old is that galaxy, really? Constraining the color-redshift relation with DESI
Today’s authors present a dataset that seeks to improve our understanding of the ages of faraway galaxies.