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.
Galactic Jets in Motion: Unveiling the Dance of Cosmic Ghosts
Plasma jets, emerging from a galaxy’s central black hole, sometimes bend in the same direction, forming head-tail structures. A recent study investigated two such galaxies found in unexpectedly close proximity, resembling a peculiar ‘dancing ghost’-like structure in the sky.
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!
Continued analysis on the continuous search for continuous waves (continued)
Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expect them to have!
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.
UR: A Getting Started Guide for JWST NIRSpec IFU Data Reduction
In today’s addition to our Undergrad Research series, a collaboration of students presents their guide to reducing JWST NIRSpec IFU data.