With Age Comes Wisdom
By determining the precise ages of stars in our galaxy, today’s Astrobite focuses on piecing together a detailed history of our own Milky Way.
Are AGN Quiescent Adolescents?
Is the evolution of galaxies and their AGN driven by past mergers?
How irregular rotation can change a galaxy’s metal content
It’s difficult to tell how the individual stars of a galaxy rotate. What can we find out just from their metal content?
Traits of Accreting Galaxies
Observations from the MaNGA survey help to answer the question: What are the features of a galaxy that appears to have undergone recent gas accretion?
Understanding Dwarf Galaxies with a Heart of Steel
Hydrodynamical simulations shed new light on the metallicity of stellar populations in dwarf galaxies.
What’s the powerhouse of the AGN?
Hint: It’s not mitochondria.