Astronomers Hate Them! This Star Formation Ingredient Makes Clusters Look 300 Million Years Older
Like a bouncer at a nightclub, JWST is trying to figure out if some star clusters are really as old as they say they are …
Don’t Cool Your Jets Quite Yet!
Don’t jet-off just yet, today’s astrobite covers a recent paper that surveys the exciting jets of the youngest stellar objects.
Hunting in total darkness: the search for dust-obscured galaxies at cosmic dawn
We know we don’t know everything about the first galaxies. Well, the mystery just deepened even further.
Pumping Aluminum: How Massive Stars Bulk Up Galactic Metal Content
Massive stars live fast and die young, making metals along the way.
All Aboard The Filament Express
Filaments in the molecular cloud Serpens South are shuttling gas and dust towards a core of protostars, showing that magnetic fields likely play a role in star formation.
FIR(E)ing Up Star Formation in Galaxy Pairs
Today’s paper uses FIRE-2 galaxy merger simulations to study star formation during the galaxy-pair stage of interactions.