Dawn of the Red Monsters
Today’s bite reports the discovery of the most distant red galaxy ever confirmed!
Too Massive, Too Early… and Still Not Massive Enough?
What if JWST’s early massive galaxies are not overestimated, but underestimated? A bottom-heavy IMF could hide tons of mass in faint stars.
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.
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.
Blast from the Past: Determining a Distance to I Zwicky 18
Take a walk down memory lane with I Zwicky 18, which could be the key to unlocking the secrets of the early universe.