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2021.02.25
A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death
In the past 30 years, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars outside the solar system. Most of the exoplanets we know of today orbit stars that will eventually exhaust their n...
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2021.01.12
High-resolution spectroscopy of ionized plasmas in the Universe
Ionized plasmas are ubiquitous in the Universe: from stellar coronae to cosmic web filaments. Characterizing ionized plasmas is critical to address many astrophysical questions, for instance, the inte...
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2021.01.12
The First Census of Metals in Dwarf Galaxies
Metals, conventionally defined as elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, are actively circulated between galaxies and their circumgalactic medium (CGM). Dwarf galaxies are more efficient at propel...
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2021.01.11
The radio-bright future of studying black holes
In recent years we witnessed tremendous progress in high frequency very long baseline radiointerferometry (VLBI). These developments were most notably marked by the first image of a supermassive black...
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2021.01.08
Bridging the Gap Between Galaxy and Star Formation with Star Clusters
Over the past decades, the discovery of a large number of young massive clusters (YMCs) in the local Universe and giant clumps in high-z galaxies suggests that clustered star formation is the dominant...
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