Written in the Stars: the Moment our Galaxy Began Boiling
Today’s authors use stellar chemistry and kinematics to identify the moment our Milky Way cooked up its disk.
Today’s authors use stellar chemistry and kinematics to identify the moment our Milky Way cooked up its disk.
How responsible is the Milky Way for the end of star formation in its satellite galaxies? Today’s authors investigate with the FIRE-2 simulations.
Where are your parents? The authors of today’s paper investigate the origins of the Orphan Stream in our galaxy!
We’ve known for some time that we reside in the Local Bubble, a cavity of low-density gas excavated by an orchestra of dying stars ~15 Myrs ago. Today’s authors find that this Bubble’s expansion is driving nearly all nearby star formation.
Today’s paper looks at our own galaxy to measure its dark matter halo mass.
One of the most important observations by the next generation of giant telescopes will be made by pointing towards the Supermassive Black Hole at the center of our galaxy.