Highlights from AAS Nova: 21 February - 5 March 2016
Susanna Kohler American Astronomical Society (AAS)
AAS Nova provides brief highlights of recently published articles from the AAS journals, i.e., The Astronomical Journal (AJ) and The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), ApJ Letters, and ApJ Supplements. The website's intent is to gain broader exposure for AAS authors and to provide astronomy researchers and enthusiasts with summaries of recent, interesting research across a wide range of astronomical fields.
The following are the AAS Nova highlights from the past two weeks; follow the links to read more, or visit the AAS Nova webpage for more posts.
4 March 2016
How to Spot a Disrupted Galactic Satellite
It’s hard to spot satellites of our galaxy that have been torn apart during their orbits! But by using a clever technique, a team of scientists has recently discovered one.
2 March 2016
What’s the Kepler Spacecraft Been Up To?
Despite equipment failure in 2013, the Kepler spacecraft is still discovering planet candidates! A recent study reports on the K2 mission’s first year of observations.
29 February 2016
Featured Image: Orbiting Stars Share an Envelope
This beautiful series of snapshots from a simulation shows what happens when two stars in a binary system become enclosed in the same stellar envelope.
26 February 2016
Disrupted Stars in Unusual Galaxies
Tidal disruption events occur when a star passes a little too close to a supermassive black hole, getting torn apart in the process. Does this happen more frequently in an unusual type of galaxy?
24 February 2016
Where to Look for Habitability
Where should we hunt for potentially habitable planets? A recent study has generated a catalog of the habitable zones around nearby stars.
22 February 2016
Galactic Teamwork Makes Distant Bubbles
What generated the radiation that reionized our universe? The recent discovery of multiple distant galaxies offers evidence for how this process occurred.