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Episode 34 - The cosmic web, the ancient Milky Way, and planets around small stars

StarXiv: a podcast discussing the latest astronomy papers·Michelle and Payel·13 April 2026·29 min

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In this episode, Nicole and Payel discuss a stellar system located towards the Galactic bulge, the structure of filaments in the cosmic web, the homogeneity of the chemical compositions of exoplanets born in the same disc, and the possibility of water-rich hot super Earths. Check out the papers below: The multi-age stellar populations of Terzan 5 as revealed by JWST Giorga Zullo et al. Universal Dark-matter Density Profiles of Cosmic Filaments Peng Xu et al. A Chemical Mismatch Between Young Stars and Their Inner Disks Diogo Souto et al. Super-Earth masses and stellar abundances from NIRPS reveal tentative evidence for water-rich formation around M dwarfs Drew Weisserman et al.