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 Telford

Evidence 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