Heist in Space: Chasing the Stolen Planets
Plenty of committed and planned heists give examples of how to steal diamonds and pearls. But how to steal a whole planet? Easy! You just need to be a star in a star forming region.
Red Spirals
JWST is currently revealing many previously unseen or undiscovered properties of our Universe. Even in the very first image released, three red spiral galaxies, which are super rare in our local Universe, can now be seen and analyzed down to structural details as never before. What can these weird galaxies tell us about the so-called cosmic noon and the evolution of galaxy formation?
Fly-bye, Baby: a review of the impact of stellar flybys on protoplanetary disks
Protoplanetary disks don’t exist in isolation; when young stars pass each other by, their gravitational encounter can disrupt, or maybe even kickstart, planet formation.
Who Keeps Stirring the Interstellar Pot?
Something is stirring up chaos on galactic scales. The authors of today’s papers investigate just what’s needed to recreate the turbulence seen in the interstellar medium.
The First Inference of A Magnetic Field Inside A Main Sequence Star
History has been made! The first magnetic field inside a main-sequence star has been measured!
JWST’s First Images
Following yesterday’s release of the First JWST Deep Field, more images from JWST’s first release were shared today. Today’s bite takes a look at the five targets and their histories.