Highlights from AAS Nova: 26 June - 9 July 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.
8 July 2016
Forming Planets in the Hostile Carina Nebula
Can protoplanetary disks form and be maintained around low-mass stars in the harsh environment of a highly active, star-forming nebula?
6 July 2016
A Different Way to Visualize Solar Changes
What if there were a better way to analyze a comet’s tail, the dimming of the Sun’s surface, or the path of material in a bright solar eruption?
4 July 2016
Featured Image: Mapping Jupiter with Hubble
Check out this beautiful Hubble map of Jupiter’s surface — and get excited for the Juno mission’s arrival at Jupiter today!
1 July 2016
Forming Spirals from Shadows
What could be causing the spirals we observe in some protoplanetary disks? Planets might have nothing to do with it.
29 June 2016
IceCube’s Search for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts
Observations from the ice kilometers under Antarctica may help us to understand the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
27 June 2016
Producing Runaway Stars
Could hypervelocity stars be accelerated by a massive black hole in the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud?