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Thursday, 18 September 2025

Weaponising dark matter

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Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence revolves around a war between baryonic and non-baryonic life forms. One memorable sequence features a p...
Monday, 15 September 2025

A dark RELHIC of an earlier age

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The last time I tried to count the number of times objects had been claimed to be the first dark galaxy candidates, I stopped at ten becaus...
Friday, 12 September 2025

The galaxies that seemed magical are actually just very lazy

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Today, two papers for the price of one ! The one is a sequel to the other and they're both quite technical, so let's knock off two b...
Thursday, 28 August 2025

Signal boost

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One man's trash is another man's treasure, or so the old saying goes. And in astronomy, one man's signal is another man's no...
Friday, 22 August 2025

ChatGPT-5 versus... DeepSeek

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My excitement for ChatGPT-5 continues to defy the Will Of The Internet. Sod y'all, this is feckin' awesome ! This is the upgrade I...
Wednesday, 13 August 2025

ChatGPT-5 Versus Me

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It's time for another round of evaluating whether ChatGPT is actually helpful for astronomical research. My previous experiments can be ...
Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Stop stripping the dwarves, they don't like it !

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Today's paper revisits a very minor but interesting storm in a teacup. Back in 2021, Junais et al. reported on  a possible Ultra Diffuse...
Thursday, 3 July 2025

The Bunny Rabbit of Death

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Today's paper is a bit more technical than usual, but sometimes you've gotta tackle the hard stuff. Ram pressure stripping is some...