Good Luck Sorting This Hat
Sorting the Sombrero galaxy into a galaxy classification is difficult to do, but new evidence suggests that like Harry Potter, the Sombrero galaxy may fit into more than one category.
Teaching an old dog new tricks: Applying color-magnitude diagrams to semi-resolved galaxies
Applying color-magnitude diagrams to distant, semi-resolved galaxies may break new ground in understanding stellar populations on a massive scale.
The Milky Way’s Ghostly Neighbor
The unique nature of the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Ant 2 may have exciting implications for our understanding of dark matter and galaxy formation.
Building Butterflies from Starlight
Even though the Sun and other stars are constantly shining down on us, there’s a lot about them that we still don’t understand.
In today’s astrobite, we explore a new approach for learning about one stellar mystery in particular: the magnetic fields of Sun-like stars.
Clearing up the Redshifts of Obscured AGNs
The redshifts of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can help us piece together the universe’s evolutionary timeline. Unfortunately, measuring these redshifts can be pretty tricky. In today’s astrobite, we look at a trick for estimating and constraining the redshifts of AGNs that are – ironically enough – partially obscured from our view.
Clearing Up Stellar Streams with Gaia
What will new data from Gaia reveal about the formation and evolution of stellar streams in the Milky Way?