Roughly five years of asteroseismic modeling may reveal the interiors of blue supergiant stars well enough to determine if these stars are the products of binary mergers.
Yuting Liu et al 2024 ApJ 966 19
Research suggests that observations of gravitational wave “standard sirens” out to a redshift of z = 5 may enable an assessment of whether lambda CDM is really the best descriptor of our universe.
Irene Vanni et al 2024 ApJL 967 L22
New chemical diagnostics allow researchers to distinguish gas clouds enriched in metals by the first generation of stars exploding as pair-instability supernovae from those enriched by other types of supernovae.
A new algorithm allows for the weighted stacking of astronomical radio images while removing interfering signals; the method is demonstrated with observations of the Andromeda Galaxy.
The merging Antennae Galaxies are already home to thousands of super star clusters, and new analysis of molecular clouds in the merger region suggests that more are likely to form.
Researchers have discovered the first pulsar within one degree of the galactic center, suggesting that many more of these once-inaccessible objects exist.