Episode 14 - A cosmic owl, misaligned planetary systems, and the Milky Way as an outlier

In this episode, we had Payel and Nicole filling in for Michelle who’s away on holiday. Nicole is a PhD student, also at the University of Surrey Astrophysics research group. They discuss the direct detection of HI beyond the local universe, how the Milky Way seems unusually cold, a planetary system with two misaligned planets, detecting stars of common origin through the ratio of alpha elements produced through hydrostatic channels to those produced through explosive ones, twin collisional-ring galaxies, and the impact of the initial mass function on chemical evolution at high redshift.Read this episode's papers through the links below!MIGHTEE-HI: The direct detection of neutral hydrogen in galaxies at z>0.25 - Matt J. Jarvis et al.Stellar Velocity Dispersion versus Age: Consistency across Observations and Simulations, with the Milky Way as an Outlier - Fiona McCluskey et al.JWST Coronagraphic Images of 14 Her c: a Cold Giant Planet in a Dynamically Hot, Multi-planet System - Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi et al.Hydrostatic and explosive α-element chemical abundances of Milky Way globular clusters, halo substructures, and satellite galaxies - Danny Horta and Melissa NessThe Cosmic Owl: Twin Active Collisional Ring Galaxies with Starburst Merging Front at z=1.14 - Mingyu Li et al.Impact of initial mass function on the chemical evolution of high-redshift galaxies - Boyuan Liu et al.