In this episode, Michelle and Nicole hit the arXiv and dig into the latest on Thamnos – an ancient Milky Way merger, carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Stars, Supernova Type Ia as cosmic probes, and a little red dot that isn’t a little red dot. Tune in here, on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. And check out the papers below

Still Accelerating: Type Ia supernova cosmology is robust to host galaxy age evolution – Phil Wiseman et al

HR-GO II: chemical abundances of low-E retrograde dynamically-tagged-groups: Revealing Thamnos as a very metal-poor substructure – Renjing Xie et al.

WEAVE imaging spectroscopy of NGC 6720: an iron bar in the Ring – R. Wesson et al.

Discovery of the First Five Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the LMC – Madeline Lucey et al.

Pseudo Little Red Dot: an Active Black Hole Embedded in a Dense and Dusty, Metal-Poor Starburst Galaxy at z=5.96 – Karina Caputi et al.