A Treasure Trove of Asteroids
Sometimes the real treasure is the asteroids we find along the way…
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.
Admiring the Atmospheric Egg Shell of Sub-Neptune TOI-270d
Whether you’re a six-year-old scouring the backyard on Easter morning, or an exoplanet astronomer with observing time on the James Webb Space Telescope, nothing beats the feeling of finding what you’re looking for. So, you can imagine the authors of today’s paper were pretty excited when they received their transmission spectroscopy data of the sub-Neptune known as TOI-270d.
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[Guest] The Walking Red: Why are you so quiet and overdense?
Why do we see so many massive, dead galaxies at early cosmic times? Guest author Tatevik Mkrtchyan illuminates a slice of the cosmic graveyard!
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