Veronika Dornan
@dornanv.bsky.social
🔭 Post-doctoral research associate at The University of Edinburgh studying extragalactic globular star clusters (she/her)
dornanv.github.io/
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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...
astrobites.org/2025/11/25/s...
Astronomers Hate Them! This Star Formation Ingredient Makes Clusters Look 300 Million Years Older
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
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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...
astrobites.org/2025/11/25/s...
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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...
astrobites.org/2025/10/16/m...
Hats Off to a Spectroscopic Study of Sombrero Galaxy Globular Clusters
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
October 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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...
astrobites.org/2025/10/16/m...
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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...
astrobites.org/2025/09/01/p...
Do You Have This Andromeda Galaxy in Extra-Extra-Extra Small?
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
September 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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...
astrobites.org/2025/09/01/p...
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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...
astrobites.org/2025/07/23/y...
Galactic Smashes and Stellar Crashes: Forming Dense Star Clusters
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
July 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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...
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!
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!
June 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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!
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 :^(
May 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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 :^(
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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/
astrobites.org/2025/05/02/cocytos/
Testing The Waters: Determining The Origin of The Cocytos Stream
How do you distinguish between home-grown and imported stars in the Milky Way? You use the Gaia space observatory, of course!
astrobites.org
May 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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/
astrobites.org/2025/05/02/cocytos/
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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/
astrobites.org/2025/04/15/jwst-bullet-cluster/
NCIS JWST: Analyzing The Aftermath of The Bullet Cluster’s Collision
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
April 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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/
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...
astrobites.org/2025/03/06/c...
A Long, Hard Look at (Potentially) Nothing to See
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
March 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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...
astrobites.org/2025/03/06/c...
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🆕 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. 🔭
The goal of AAS Journal Author Series is to connect authors with their article, their human story & the larger #astronomy community. 🔭
AAS Journal Author Series: Veronika Dornan and Bill Harris on 2024AJ....168...48D
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September 30, 2024 at 3:21 PM
🆕 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. 🔭
The goal of AAS Journal Author Series is to connect authors with their article, their human story & the larger #astronomy community. 🔭