FIREstorms in early galaxies: Simulating the brief, blazing lives of giant clumps
What do a galaxy’s stellar clumps tell us about how it formed? Today’s guest author Michelle Park explores interesting properties of clumps from the FIRE simulations.
Guest: Teaching Machines to Spot Star‑Forming Clumps in Galaxies
Clumpy galaxies dominate the early universe, yet their local counterparts are hard to find. A new machine‑learning approach learns to spot these hidden clumps and opens the door to studying them in far greater detail.
A Possible GLIMPSE of the Universe’s First Stars
Today’s bite explores a new method to find the galaxies hosting the Universe’s first generation of stars
MeerKAT meets a giga-maser!
Space is full of unusual and (sometimes) quite powerful phenomena that cause light to behave in unexpected ways. Maser systems are one of these phenomena. The MeerKAT Radio Telescope recently detected the most luminous and distant hydroxyl (or OH) maser system – so intense it crossed the threshold from “mega-maser” to “giga-maser”. Discover why this system is so remarkable in this bite!
Do we actually know how old the Universe is?
So we have a pretty good idea of how old the Universe is right? Well according to JWST data, maybe not? Rest assured, today’s bite gets to the bottom of the debate.
Feeding Time at the AGN Zoo
How do the eating habits (accretion) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) affect the light emitted for animals in the AGN zoo?