The discovery that the 1000-light-year-wide "Local Bubble" surrounding the Sun and Earth is responsible for the formation of all nearby, young stars was first presented in a paper published in Nature on January 12, 2022, by Zucker et al.  The paper's exploratory visualization, and figures like the interactive sample below, all relied on the glue software.  The interactive figures were singled-out as a key innovation in much of the media coverage, including a feature in the New York Times.

In 2021, an international team of astronomers including glue solutions' founders, used glue to discover the "Perseus Taurus Subperbubble," shown below as an interactive figure exported from glue to plot.ly.  This figure appears in Bialy et al. 2021, and the scannable QR codes embedded in it represent the first use of Augmented Reality in an American Astronomical Society Journal.

In 2021, an international team of astronomers including glue solutions' founders, used glue to study the three-dimensional structure of molecular clouds with 1-pc (3 light-year) resolution.  The interactive figure  shown here is one of the dozen such interactive  views presented in Zucker et al. 2021,  which highlights the key differences between 2D and 3D views of star forming clouds in the nearby Milky Way.  (Spoiler alert: 2D is misleading!)

In 2020, an international team of astronomers including glue solutions' founders, used glue to map out and understand a new giant wave of gas in the Milky Way, dubbed "The Radcliffe Wave." The figure below, reproduced from the Nature article by Alves et al. 2020, was created by glue solutions data scientist (and Harvard & NASA astronomer) Dr. Catherine Zucker, using glue's export-to-plot.ly functionality, which she developed.