In the Triangulum Galaxy, over the course of a hundred thousand years, three supernova exploded from the same star cluster. The remains of these explosions have expanded into a trio of giant bubbles nested within each other.
The author revisits a seminal article that reviews our understanding of AGN feedback, and comes out extremely impressed with the status quo (and the parallels with fictional universes).
Have we caught a glimpse of some of the earliest black holes in the universe, and what does it mean for our understanding of the early universe?
In the era of extremely large telescopes, let’s take look at the opposite end: the extremely little telescopes. KELT, or the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope, is one of them.
We know quite a lot about planets orbiting other stars – if they’re closer to their stars than Jupiter is to the Sun. For the region further out than Pluto, we know almost nothing. Is there anything out there?
Today’s guest post from Nimisha Kumari looks at how different properties of galaxies can affect the Schmidt-Kennicutt Law.