Fast metal factories at z ~ 5, lessons from ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST
JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang.
A Week Down Under, Unifying Theorists and Observers of the High-Redshift Universe
Today’s bite comes to your screen direct from the “Exploring the first billion years of the Universe” conference in Australia. Read on to find out what we’ve already discovered about the early Universe, and what’s still to come.
When Galaxies Get Clumpy: JWST Maps the Birth and Death of Star-Forming Clumps
You think stars form quietly? Think again. In the early universe, galaxies were packed with star-forming clumps. Some disrupted quickly, while others survived. Today’s paper reveals which lived and which died young.
A Tale of Two Quenching Pathways
Do galaxies shut off star formation from the inside-out or the outside-in? And what does that tell us about their history?
“Undressing” a Naked Quasar: HE0450-2958
Today’s guest post presents an investigation of HE0450-2958—a quasar with a “missing” host galaxy.
Do You Have This Andromeda Galaxy in Extra-Extra-Extra Small?
It’s an itty bitty teeny weeny ultra faint dwarf galaxy-ni! Today’s bite talks about the discovery of the faintest galaxy in the Andromeda system!