Testing The Waters: Determining The Origin of The Cocytos Stream
How do you distinguish between home-grown and imported stars in the Milky Way? You use the Gaia space observatory, of course!
Dust Ahead of Schedule: The Surprising UV Bump in a Galaxy at Cosmic Dawn
What do you get when baby galaxies crash and light up in UV? A surprising early signature of cosmic dust.
Hungry Hungry Nova
Today’s bite features the beautiful red nova, ZTF SLRN-2020, and how its beauty may be the dying breath of a planet.
NCIS JWST: Analyzing The Aftermath of The Bullet Cluster’s Collision
BANG! That’s the sound of a new study of the Bullet Cluster that digs deep into where the system’s dark matter is and what properties it may have.
A New Look at Our Old Friend, the Crab Nebula
Our most comprehensive view yet at how the stringy nebula behaves, and what that tells us about the fossil star at its centre…
Discovering a Stunted Giant: An Intermediate Mass Black Hole Hiding in the Milky Way
Today’s bite showcases the detection of an elusive intermediate-mass black hole hiding in our very own Galaxy!