Our Galaxy is Shook: Impact of the LMC on the Outer Milky Way
Today’s paper looks at the gravitational influence of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way – one may think our Galaxy is in equilibrium, but it is actually being sloshed around!
Today’s paper looks at the gravitational influence of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way – one may think our Galaxy is in equilibrium, but it is actually being sloshed around!
How big is a galaxy cluster? Today’s authors use the remnants of destroyed galaxies to define the edge of galaxy clusters.
Travel back in time as today’s authors unearth the mysterious history of the “fossil galaxy” Segue 1.
Using simulations of a Milky Way-sized elliptical galaxy, astronomers study how stellar substructures can tell us about past merger events.
The discovery of a second dark matter deficient galaxy by van Dokkum et al. has caused the debate on galaxies lacking dark matter to resurface.
Hydrodynamical simulations shed new light on the metallicity of stellar populations in dwarf galaxies.