From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : Like a bouncer at a nightclub, JWST is trying to figure out if some star clusters are really as old as they say they are… ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/11/25/s...

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : You really have to tip your hat to the authors of today’s bite, who closely studied the dynamics and metallicities of the globular clusters of M104. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/16/m...

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : It’s an itty bitty teeny weeny ultra faint dwarf galaxy-ni! Today’s bite talks about the discovery of the faintest galaxy in the Andromeda system! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/01/p...

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : You know the saying: “when gas-rich galaxies collide, young massive star clusters will soon reside” … well maybe you’ll know the saying after reading this astrobite! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/07/23/y...

My paper is on arXiv today! arxiv.org/abs/2505.24154 The big headline: brightest cluster galaxies with more shallow radial distributions of their *red* GC systems have higher GC system mass / total mass ratios, likely due to early, major mergers with other massive elliptical galaxies!

If I were writing my thesis in days of yore I would be buried under piles of books and papers and people would see me and go "wow poor thing, she's in the thick of it, I have to get her a coffee" but now they just walk past my overheating laptop with 50 tabs open, unaware, and I have no coffee :^(

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : How do you distinguish between home-grown and imported stars in the Milky Way? You use the Gaia space observatory, of course! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/02/cocytos/

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : BANG! That’s the sound of a new study of the Bullet Cluster that digs deep into where the system’s dark matter is and what properties it may have. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/04/15/jwst-bullet-cluster/

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From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : All dark matter, no stars? Is that even possible? That’s just what these authors are trying to determine in today’s article! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/03/06/c...

🆕 Veronika Dornan & Bill Harris (McMaster University) chat with Frank Timmes about their article on radial density profiles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmC... The goal of AAS Journal Author Series is to connect authors with their article, their human story & the larger #astronomy community. 🔭