Protocluster Galaxies Love to Talk to Their Neighbors
Galaxy evolution is affected by a complex web of neighborhood politics between nearby galaxies. Today’s authors show that it’s the closest galaxies that matter the most in a galaxy protocluster!
Galaxy evolution is affected by a complex web of neighborhood politics between nearby galaxies. Today’s authors show that it’s the closest galaxies that matter the most in a galaxy protocluster!
Every time sexual harassers are given authorship on prominent papers, chaos ensues for the broader astronomy community; but nobody is more affected than the junior members (grad students and postdocs) within those research groups. This is the story about how we, the Early Career Researchers within the California Planet Search, have tackled the most recent authorship “debacle.”
Astrobites coverage of Day 1 of AAS 241!
This exoplanet has…a tail?! Read on to learn about how astronomers studied the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-107b and clues they found about atmospheric escape.
Today’s authors work out a full orbital solution for a binary microlensing system, indicating the method’s potential to probe the mass distribution of dark objects.
Take a journey into the furthest reaches of our cosmos and learn about the most distant galaxy we have ever observed.