In our first podcast, we sit down to discuss a few papers from September, including a trio of new galaxies, the initial mass function, the building blocks of the Milky Way and are we alone in the Universe?

Papers in this month’s episode:

Three Quenched, Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Direction of NGC 300: New Probes of Reionization and Internal Feedback, Sand et al https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16345

Did WISE detect Dyson Spheres/Structures around Gaia-2MASS-selected stars? Blain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11447

Loki: an ancient system hidden in the Galactic plane? Sesito et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13813

Revealing Potential Initial Mass Function variations with metallicity: JWST observations of young open clusters in a low-metallicity environment, Yasui et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15440