UR: Using Machine Learning to Identify Transients in the DESI Survey
Today’s undergraduate post talks about how to use machine learning to find transients in galactic spectra!
Three Bodies and You’re Out: Ejecting the First Known Hypervelocity Globular Cluster
In today’s paper, astronomers try to figure out why one of M87’s globular clusters is leaving – and leaving fast.
Pinning Down the Distance to the Farthest Galaxy Ever Observed
Take a journey into the furthest reaches of our cosmos and learn about the most distant galaxy we have ever observed.
Quasar Outflows and Feedback Efficiency
Today’s paper presents the physical properties of outflows in type 2 quasars and their role in AGN feedback.
Red Dead Evolution
Most galaxies take significant fractions of the age of the universe to noticeably change. Others transform themselves in the first two billion years of the universe. How does this happen?
Weak on the Outside, Powerful on the Inside
Riddle of the day: What is something young and old, weak and powerful?