Today’s astrobite explores one of the most extreme distant galaxies: a dusty, star forming galaxy at redshift 5.7 which has been found to have one of the highest star formation densities of any known galaxy in the Universe. But what causes this? Does it contain an active galactic nucleus?
Five young stars in one system — all the same age but at different stages of their evolution. What can they tell us?
Do baby stars like it hot or cold? Learning about the dusty environments where stars are born.
Star formation rate and stellar mass as telltales of dark matter and galaxy connection.
In today’s guest post, Caitlin Doughty discusses how carbon lines are misidentified and their impact on cosmology.
There she blows! A detective case tracking the motion of material ejected from a star to figure out when the star exploded.