Highlights from AAS Nova: 6-19 March 2016

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.

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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.

18 March 2016
Featured Image: Violent History of the Toothbrush Cluster
The Toothbrush Cluster’s enormous radio relic may have been caused by a past merger between clusters.

16 March 2016
Where a Neutron Star’s Accretion Disk Ends
New X-ray observations reveal an accretion disk that has been pushed away from the surface of the neutron star it surrounds, possibly as a result of powerful magnetic fields.

14 March 2016
Imaging the Heart of Our Galaxy
New radio images of the center of the Milky Way are providing an unprecedented view of the structure and processes occurring in the Galactic center.

11 March 2016
The Fate of Unstable Circumbinary Planets
What happens to Tattooine-like planets in unstable orbits around a binary star system? A new study determines if they crash, are ejected, or are captured.

9 March 2016
Dark-Matter Halos of Tenuous Galaxies
A new study provides key information to help us understand where ultra-diffuse galaxies — galaxies as large as giants, but as faint as dwarfs — come from.

7 March 2016
Waiting for Shadows from the Distant Solar System
How can we hope to measure the hundreds of thousands of objects in our distant solar system? A team of astronomers is harnessing citizen science to begin to tackle this problem!