Skip to Content
Subscribe
Log In
Menu
Search
Search
Crosswords
NFL
NBA
MLB
NHL
WNBA
Soccer
Podcasts
Arts And Culture
Politics
About Us
Send Us A Tip (News)
Send Us A Tip ($)
Merch Shop
How To Pitch Defector
Defector Freelancer Policies
Crossword Submission Guidelines
Books By Defectors
Defector Hall of Fame
Masthead
How To Comment On Defector
RSS Feed
Terms of Use
Log In
Subscribe
Defector Twitch
Defector Bluesky
Search Results for ""color star""
Search
Search
Life's Rich Pageant
A Comprehensive And Maddening History Of Color Star, Would-Be Titans Of Just About Anything
386
Comments
Chris Thompson
January 7, 2025
Life's Rich Pageant
Color Star Is Circling The Color Drain
308
Comments
Chris Thompson
November 17, 2023
Soccer
The Color Star Cup Runneth Over
146
Comments
Dan McQuade
January 4, 2023
Capital
Color Star Makes Its Next Big Move, Teams Up With Max Payne, Johnny Blaze, And Elizabeth
467
Comments
Chris Thompson
July 14, 2023
Life's Rich Pageant
Color Star’s Metaverse Adventure Continues With Promise To Make Smart Phones
190
Comments
Chris Thompson
September 27, 2022
NHL
The NHL Has A Uniform Problem
241
Comments
Barry Petchesky
October 24, 2025
Things We Actually Like
Our Favorite Defector Blogs From The Last Five Years
288
Comments
Defector Staff
September 10, 2025
MLB
The Defector World Series MVP Is The Gink
42
Comments
Lauren Theisen
November 2, 2023
Arts And Culture
Brooches Won The Oscars
88
Comments
Kelsey McKinney
March 16, 2026
Life's Rich Pageant
Oh No, Sir Lucas Capetian Is Out As CEO At Color Star
232
Comments
Chris Thompson
June 21, 2022
Women's Basketball
How Can You Not Be Romantic About Women’s Basketball?
42
Comments
Maitreyi Anantharaman
March 2, 2026
NBA
Let’s Check In On The State Of The NBA’s National Broadcasts
84
Comments
Patrick Redford
December 11, 2025
Year In Review
The Best Things We Saw In 2025
189
Comments
Defector Staff
December 23, 2025
Funbag
End Play-Clock Abuse!
678
Comments
Drew Magary
January 14, 2025
Listening Habits
Max B Is New York Rap’s Best Hope
27
Comments
Israel Daramola
February 6, 2026
Science
A Comet From Another Solar System Is On Its Way
106
Comments
Barry Petchesky
July 6, 2025
WNBA
The WNBA Had Too Much Going On Last Night
98
Comments
Maitreyi Anantharaman
June 18, 2025
Dadfector
This Is Awesome
37
Comments
Sean T. Collins
January 2, 2026
Arts And Culture
No One Needed The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show To Come Back
92
Comments
Alex Sujong Laughlin
October 17, 2024
Funbag
I Wanna Be A Cowboy
483
Comments
Drew Magary
April 7, 2026
Arts And Culture
Charli XCX Is Firmly In Her Cinephile Era
25
Comments
Mark Asch
April 30, 2026
Mods Asleep
Has The World’s Biggest K-Pop Group Already Come And Gone?
95
Comments
Kathryn Xu
August 12, 2025
MLB
The Dodgers Are Disappointing The People Who Want To Love Them The Most
110
Comments
Diana Moskovitz
June 25, 2025
NFL
The Hallmark Channel And The Buffalo Bills Encourage You To “Go For Four”
250
Comments
David Roth
September 19, 2025
Life Lessons
Look Up!
145
Comments
Barry Petchesky
January 5, 2025
NBA
A Basketball Team Can Be Sold, But Who Owns Its History?
152
Comments
Ray Ratto
April 1, 2026
Chefector
The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Is Whooped By One Of Its Own Damn Readers
92
Comments
Chris Thompson
and
Kelsey McKinney
May 26, 2026
The Backlog
‘Warcraft III: Reforged’ Was A Greedy Debacle
157
Comments
Luis Paez-Pumar
February 7, 2025
Creaturefector
Blob-Headed Fish Sets New Standard Of Fishy Blobbiness
65
Comments
Sabrina Imbler
December 20, 2024
Soccer
The NWSL Offseason Put Important New Faces In New Places
41
Comments
Abigail Segel
March 3, 2026
Swimming
Diana Nyad Finally Got Her Plaque
76
Comments
DM
Dave McKenna
November 28, 2025
MLB
The Tampa Bay Rays Are Still Flourishing, And Still Invisible
51
Comments
Ray Ratto
May 22, 2026
College Basketball
Kara Lawson And Duke Get Revenge With A Conference Title
17
Comments
Maitreyi Anantharaman
March 10, 2025
Food
The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Condemns The Atrocities Of Back-To-School Week
128
Comments
Chris Thompson
and
Kelsey McKinney
October 1, 2025
NBA
Nico Harrison, Mavericks Fans, And Rooting Against Your Guys
66
Comments
Chris Thompson
October 26, 2025
Arts And Culture
To Artistic Freedom: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All Of Life’s Problems
291
Comments
Soraya Roberts
September 26, 2025
Journalismism
Beyoncé Comes Off As Very Real And Human In Email Interview With GQ
190
Comments
Israel Daramola
September 10, 2024
Arts And Culture
No Courage, No Heart, No Brain
177
Comments
Nicholas Russell
September 4, 2025
WNBA
Marina Mabrey Does Not See Her Future In Connecticut
33
Comments
Maitreyi Anantharaman
February 20, 2025
Podcasts
There’s No Rutgers Football In The Champagne Room
81
Comments
David Roth
October 24, 2024
Bills Week
Bill Laimbeer Made Me A Youth Basketball Maniac
87
Comments
Lauren Theisen
July 14, 2025
College Basketball
John Feinstein Never Stopped Doing Everything
81
Comments
DM
Dave McKenna
March 14, 2025
Tennis
The Australian Open Is Happy And Hot
47
Comments
Owen Lewis
January 27, 2025
Music
What Is An Industry Plant Anyway?
154
Comments
Israel Daramola
March 21, 2025
NBA
Adam Silver’s Job Is About To Get So Much Harder
136
Comments
Ray Ratto
October 24, 2025
Arts And Culture
Netflix Keeps Ruining Action Movies
130
Comments
Robert Rubsam
May 16, 2025
NFL
Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Houston Texans
301
Comments
Drew Magary
August 25, 2025
Arts And Culture
The Forbidden Worlds Of Toshiko Takaezu
38
Comments
Sabrina Imbler
April 17, 2024
The Fights
Canelo Álvarez No Longer Cares About Showcasing His Greatness
28
Comments
Owen Lewis
September 12, 2024
Racing
An Exquisite 2026 Formula 1 Preview For True Sophisticates
114
Comments
Luis Paez-Pumar
and
Kathryn Xu
March 6, 2026
NHL
It’s A Dome That’s Shaped Like A Saddle
94
Comments
Lauren Theisen
March 6, 2026
Defector At The Movies
Four Thoughts About ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’
137
Comments
Lauren Theisen
and
Luis Paez-Pumar
July 27, 2025
MLB
There Was A Time When Everyone Cared How Pete Rose Smelled
130
Comments
Dan McQuade
October 2, 2024
Music
MC Ktrine’s Rapping Is A Gift To Brazilian Funk
2
Comments
Billy Haisley
April 8, 2025
Animals
The Secrets Of Human And Canine Fashion At The Westminster Dog Show
52
Comments
Heather Wei-Xi Chen
February 4, 2026
Arts And Culture
‘The Village’ Still Has Questions To Ask
117
Comments
Nicholas Russell
December 6, 2024
Interviews
Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back: Michael Koresky On Hollywood’s Queer History
15
Comments
Nicholas Russell
July 2, 2025
NFL
Jared Goff Threw Five Interceptions And None Of Them Mattered
140
Comments
Lauren Theisen
November 11, 2024
Soccer
Inter Survived A War For The Ages
54
Comments
Luis Paez-Pumar
May 7, 2025
Creaturefector
Fat AND Sassy? A Three-Legged Lizard Really Can Have It All
38
Comments
Sabrina Imbler
October 28, 2025
Defector Reads A Book
Find A Job You Enjoy, And You’ll Never Have A Day Off In Your Life
92
Comments
Maitreyi Anantharaman
September 18, 2024
Creaturefector
This Saber-Toothed Kitten Mummy Is So Stinking Cute That I’m Gonna Cry!
51
Comments
Sabrina Imbler
November 20, 2024
Defector At The Movies
Please Do Not Strive For Documentary Realism In A Movie (Spoiler Alert) Where A Huge Worm Bursts Out Of A Man’s Eye-Socket
103
Comments
Chris Thompson
May 23, 2024
Arts And Culture
What Should Recorded Musicals Do?
75
Comments
HS
Hannah Seo
February 24, 2026
Jamboroo
There Is Always An After
330
Comments
Drew Magary
September 4, 2025
Arts And Culture
What Makes Hockey Hockey?
70
Comments
Lauren Theisen
May 20, 2024
Creaturefector
Honey, They Yassified A Kākāpō!
51
Comments
Sabrina Imbler
March 12, 2024
Wings Week
How I Learned To Moth And Embrace The Dark
It’s like birding, but for moths.
66
Comments
Sabrina Imbler
July 18, 2024
Jamboroo
The 2024 NFL Season Is A Hater’s Paradise
400
Comments
Drew Magary
October 17, 2024
MLB
Bryce Harper Is A Bargain
139
Comments
Dan McQuade
October 8, 2024
Pro Wrestling
WrestleMania 41’s Two Main Events And The Risks Of Getting Epic
155
Comments
Luis Paez-Pumar
April 21, 2025
Olympics
In Street Skateboarding’s Second Olympics, Japan Cements Itself On Top
40
Comments
Israel Daramola
July 30, 2024
College Basketball
Texas Tech Made It Feel Like Destiny
49
Comments
DM
Dave McKenna
March 28, 2025
Soccer
Marc Guéhi Avoids Punishment For Twice Undermining Premier League’s LGBT Campaign
138
Comments
Luis Paez-Pumar
December 4, 2024
The Fights
Tyson/Paul Was A Boxing Match That Felt Like Netflix
178
Comments
David Roth
November 17, 2024
Zillowing Out
A $2 Million Home With Soaring Views
113
Comments
Kelsey McKinney
July 20, 2024
Arts And Culture
Theater Is When You Never Get A Second Chance
100
Comments
Lauren Theisen
November 14, 2024
Racing
A Timely And Frankly Too Thorough 2025 Formula 1 Season Preview
125
Comments
Kathryn Xu
and
Luis Paez-Pumar
March 14, 2025
MLB
The Mets Are Worse Than Bad. They’re Tedious
96
Comments
Lauren Theisen
May 22, 2024
Pro Wrestling
Hiroshi Tanahashi Leaves An Unfillable Void In Japanese Wrestling
40
Comments
Lauren Theisen
January 7, 2026
Chess
The Clouds Have Gathered Over The World Chess Championship
72
Comments
Ben Tippett
November 22, 2024
Podcasts
Getting Slightly Too French With It, With Patrick Redford
76
Comments
David Roth
August 1, 2024
Arts And Culture
Maggie Nelson Sputters And Stalls In ‘The Slicks’
117
Comments
Becca Young
December 12, 2025
Arts And Culture
Eagles Win Loan Of Manet Painting In Super Bowl Bet, Which Is What This Thing Was About All Along
108
Comments
Dan McQuade
February 14, 2025
Pro Wrestling
Flaws Can Make A Wrestler Feel Real
15
Comments
Lauren Theisen
July 30, 2024
Funbag
Oh Shit, I’m A Crossword Dork Now
631
Comments
Drew Magary
December 2, 2025
Arts And Culture
The 2025 Hate List
387
Comments
Israel Daramola
December 23, 2025
Under The Influence
A Capsule Wardrobe Won’t Save You
116
Comments
Alex Sujong Laughlin
December 17, 2024
Soccer
The Vermilion Vanguard Is On The March
15
Comments
Abigail Segel
April 24, 2025
Interviews
Giri Nathan DISHES On Jannik Sinner And Carlos Alcaraz In This EXCLUSIVE Interview
27
Comments
Maitreyi Anantharaman
August 19, 2025
NFL
It Sucks To Watch Caleb Williams Suck
470
Comments
Drew Magary
September 11, 2025
Arts And Culture
In Praise Of ‘The Pitt,’ The Most Normal Show On Television
197
Comments
Mark Asch
April 3, 2025
Science
Fall Into The Whirlpool Galaxy
54
Comments
Barry Petchesky
December 31, 2023
MLB
Hank Thompson Lived A Wild, Tragic, Forgotten Life In Baseball
51
Comments
RW
Robert Weintraub
September 17, 2025
Games
Competitive Scrabble Is A Lexical Shitshow
69
Comments
Stefan Fatsis
March 12, 2026
Capital
Concrete-Company-Turned-Metaverse Now Promoting A Hook-Up For “Human Cloned Organs”
341
Comments
Chris Thompson
March 23, 2022
Arts And Culture
When Quiet Luxury Gets Loud
226
Comments
Alex Sujong Laughlin
October 2, 2024
NFL
The NFL Draft Is Sicko Prom
143
Comments
Ray Ratto
April 25, 2024
Table Tennis
The Real Marty Supreme
76
Comments
David Davis
November 12, 2025
Olympics
Who Is 3×3 Olympic Basketball For?
106
Comments
PD
Patrick T. Dorsey
August 12, 2024
![The graceful winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Unlike the menagerie of weird and wonderful spiral galaxies with ragged or disrupted spiral arms, grand-design spiral galaxies boast prominent, well-developed spiral arms like the ones showcased in this image. This galactic portrait was captured by Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). In this image the reprocessed stellar light by dust grains and molecules in the medium of the galaxy illuminate a dramatic filamentary medium. Empty cavities and bright filaments alternate and give the impression of ripples propagating from the spiral arms. The yellow compact regions indicate the newly formed star clusters in the galaxy. M51 — also known as NGC 5194 — lies about 27 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is trapped in a tumultuous relationship with its near neighbour, the dwarf galaxy NGC 5195. The interaction between these two galaxies has made these galactic neighbours one of the better-studied galaxy pairs in the night sky. The gravitational influence of M51’s smaller companion is thought to be partially responsible for the stately nature of the galaxy’s prominent and distinct spiral arms. If you would like to learn more about this squabbling pair of galactic neighbours, you can explore earlier observations of M51 by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope here. This Webb observation of M51 is one of a series of observations collectively titled Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers, or FEAST. The FEAST observations were designed to shed light on the interplay between stellar feedback and star formation in environments outside of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Stellar feedback is the term used to describe the outpouring of energy from stars into the environments which form them, and is a crucial process in determining the rates at which stars form. Understanding stellar feedback is vital to building accurate universal models of star formation. The aim of the FEAST observations is to discover and study stellar nurseries in galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. Before Webb became operative, other observatories such as the Atacama Large Millimetre Array in the Chilean desert and Hubble have given us a glimpse of star formation either at the onset (tracing the dense gas and dust clouds where stars will form) or after the stars have destroyed with their energy their natal gas and dust clouds. Webb is opening a new window into the early stages of star formation and stellar light, as well as the energy reprocessing of gas and dust. Scientists are seeing star clusters emerging from their natal cloud in galaxies beyond our local group for the first time. They will also be able to measure how long it takes for these stars to pollute with newly formed metals and to clean out the gas (these time scales are different from galaxy to galaxy). By studying these processes, we will better understand how the star formation cycle and metal enrichment are regulated within galaxies as well as what are the time scales for planets and brown dwarfs to form. Once dust and gas is removed from the newly formed stars, there is no material left to form planets. [Image Description: A large spiral galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the core’s centre, but it is tightly limited to the core. The detailed rings feature bands of deep orange and cloudy grey, which are interspersed by darker empty regions throughout.]](https://lede-admin.defector.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2023/12/potm2308c.jpg?resize=2880%2C1920)
