In this episode, Payel and Nicole discuss what happens to the metallicity gradient of a satellite galaxy after it merges with its host, the existence of intermediate-age RR lyrae and radio rings, the possibility of determining the history of the inner Milky Way from radially migrated stars, and the possibility of finding more Einstein rings using a new approach that utilises both spectra and images.

From order to chaos: the blurred out metallicity gradient of the Gaia-Enceladus/Sausage progenitor - Andreia Carillo et al.

First direct detection of an RR Lyrae star conclusively associated with an intermediate-age cluster - Cecilia Mateu et al.

RAD@home discovery of extragalactic radio rings and odd radio circles: clues to their origins - Ananda Hota et al.

A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1 - Yuan-Ming Hsu et al.

Chronology of our Galaxy from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fitting (ChronoGal): IV. On the inner Milky Way stellar age distribution - Tomás Ruiz-Lara et al.

In this episode, Michelle and Nicole discuss merger debris around a distant spiral galaxy, metal-mixing around pop III stars, quasi-periodic eruptions in Ansky, relic galaxies, Mercury's magnetosphere and second generation stars in globular clusters. Listen below, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

In this episode of the StarXiv Michelle and Payel talk about very massive and less massive black holes, the possibility of feedback free star formation, dark galaxies, runaway dwarf galaxies and the chance of life in the faintest galaxies.

Check out the papers below!

AGN-heated dust revealed in "Little Red Dots - I Delvecchio et al.

Is feedback-free star formation possible? - A. Ferrara et al.

The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud - Gangadeep Anand et al.

An isolated early-type dwarf galaxy that ran away from the group environment - Sanjaya Paudel et al.

Are Local Group Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies the First Safe Planet-hosting Environments? - Stefano Ciabattini, Stefania Salvadori, Leonardo Testi

New gravitational-wave data support a bimodal black-hole mass