Episode 2 - October

This month, Payel and Michelle sit down to discuss a range of exciting new results, including a disappearing star, news moons of Uranus, star formation in extremely metal poor galaxies and unusual young stars in the Milky Way disk. Plus, we make a plug for the extremely useful local_volume_database project.Papers discussed this month:The disappearance of a massive star marking the birth of a black hole in M31 – Kishalay De et al.New Moons of Uranus and Neptune from Ultra-Deep Pencil Beam Surveys – Scott Sheppard et al.Molecular Hydrogen in the Extremely Metal-Poor, Star-Forming Galaxy Leo P – O. Grace TelfordEvidence of Truly Young high-α Dwarf Stars – Yuxi Lu et al.The Local Volume Database: a library of the observed properties of nearby dwarf galaxies and star clusters – Andrew Pace