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The CMZoom survey catalog contains 285 robust (816 total) compact sources in the galactic center. They have effective radii between 0.04 and 0.4 pc and are the potential progenitors of star clusters.
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Hubble and Chandra imaging of Barnard’s Star, a 10-Gyr old M dwarf, indicates that quiescent stellar XUV flux does not lead to strong atmospheric escape, but the flare environment could drive significant atmospheric loss.
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The cyclical bursts of the young stellar object EC 53 are carefully studied, generating a description in which mass builds up and then drains from the inner protoplanetary disk surrounding the young stellar object.
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The first γ-ray emitting BL Lac object — a class of jetted active galactic nuclei — has been found at a redshift beyond z = 3, i.e., within the first two billion years of the age of the universe.
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Hydrodynamical calculations track the ejection and survival rates of dust grains produced in supernovae, demonstrating that supernovae, under the right conditions, can be significant sources of interstellar dust.