Run, Boy, Run, This Galaxy Is Not Meant for You!
A mysterious streak appears in Hubble images. Could it be the starry wake left behind by an ejected black hole?
Smashing stellar nurseries together to see if they survive
Galaxy mergers are violent places, which makes simulating their effects on fragile molecular clouds very difficult. The authors of today’s paper manage to do it anyway!
Mass + metals + making history = constraining the mass-metallicity relation with JWST
Investigating the physical properties of galaxies is key to our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. With the power of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to investigate properties of huge numbers of galaxies in the early Universe.
The Dance of Fire and Ice: a White Dwarf and its ultra-cool Brown Dwarf companion
Today’s post discusses the discovery of an unusual system: an ultra-cool brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf!
Dynamical Duo: An Updated Understanding of the Orbits of the Two Giant Planets in the HD 45354 System
In today’s paper, the authors take another look at the HD 45354 planetary system, and come to new conclusions about the orbit of the two gas giants within!
New insights into the puzzle of NGC 1068
Today’s authors delve into the AGN-starburst composite galaxy NGC 1068, and discuss a model for its multi-messenger emission.