In this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss six papers covering topics like ultra-diffuse galaxies, the Omega Centauri cluster, and insights from JWST. The extended podcast aims to explore diverse research while transitioning to biweekly episodes in the New Year, maintaining a 30-minute format. They’ll return in 2025.

Papers discussed this month:

1. The multiple classes of ultra-diffuse galaxies: Can we tell them apart? – Maria-Luisa Buzzo et al.
2. Abundance ties: Nephele and the globular cluster population accreted with ω Cen. Based on APOGEE DR17 and Gaia EDR3 – Giulia Pagnini et al.
3. A New Rarity Assessment of the `Disk of Satellites’: the Milky Way System Is the Exception Rather than the Rule in the ΛCDM Cosmology – Chanoul Seo et al.
4. New tools for studying planarity in galaxy satellite systems: Milky Way satellite planes are consistent with ΛCDM – E. Uzeirbegovic et al.
5. A grand-design spiral galaxy 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang with JWST – Rashi Jain & Yogesh Wadadekar
6. In-situ formation of star clusters at z > 7 via galactic disk fragmentation; shedding light on ultra-compact clusters and overmassive black holes seen by JWST – Lucio Meyer et al.