In our first podcast, we sit down to discuss a few papers from September, including a trio of new galaxies, the initial mass function, the building blocks of the Milky Way and are we alone in the Universe?

Papers in this month’s episode:

1. Three Quenched, Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Direction of NGC 300: New Probes of Reionization and Internal Feedback, Sand et al 
2. Did WISE detect Dyson Spheres/Structures around Gaia-2MASS-selected stars? Blain
3. Loki: an ancient system hidden in the Galactic plane? Sesito et al.
4. Revealing Potential Initial Mass Function variations with metallicity: JWST observations of young open clusters in a low-metallicity environment, Yasui et al.