Guest: The on-again, off-again lives of intermittent pulsars
Are we missing out on a crucial stage of pulsar evolution? Guest author Tibby Finn Leeming shows how a lack of data can sometimes be misleading.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Clumps and Inward Migration
Something is missing in the middle. In JWST JADES galaxies, young clumps drop out in the inner regions, while clump structure shifts from the outskirts to the center.
Unveiling the interstellar medium of coming-of-age galaxies
…to learn more about the origins of dusty galaxies at early cosmic times.
Can’t we just take a picture of an exoplanet?
If we want to know about the conditions for life on an Earth-like exoplanet, can’t we just take a picture of it? One where we can see continents, clouds and potential biospheres?
The short answer is we can’t. The long answer as to why not is found in today’s bite.
SED Fitting: How Astronomers Understand Galaxies Across Time
When studying distant galaxies, SED fitting is one tool to rule them all. But how can we learn the detailed history of entire galaxies from just a few snapshots?
How to ID some extrasolar dusty snowballs
Exocomets are becoming more interesting, given their detections are more promising and well studied. So, naming them is of more importance now than ever. Today’s bite summarizes a paper that proposes a nomenclature for exocomets.