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6 September 2016
Highlights from AAS Nova: 21 August - 3 September 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.
2 September 2016
Rings from Close Encounters
Minor planets Chariklo and Chiron were recently discovered to have ring systems. Could they have formed when the minor planets got a little too close to a giant?
31 August 2016
Monitoring Holes in the Sun’s Corona
How has the distribution of coronal holes — holes in the Sun’s upper atmosphere through which the fast solar wind escapes — changed over the last 40 years?
30 August 2016
A Sonic Boom (Half) as Old as Time Itself
Astrobites reports on the oldest shock wave we’ve ever found, which is moving at 5 million miles per hour and was created by the collision of two galaxy clusters!
29 August 2016
Featured Image: The Milky Way’s X
This contrast-enhanced image of the Milky Way from the WISE satellite reveals the X-shaped morphology of our galactic bulge.
26 August 2016
New Efforts to Identify Dark Matter
Is dark matter “cold,” “warm,” or “hot”? New observations are helping us identify what makes up our universe.
24 August 2016
The (Historical) Search for Planets Orbiting Proxima Centauri
We’ve spent the last couple decades searching for planets around our nearest stellar neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. Here’s a look at what we’ve learned so far.
23 August 2016
What Did the First Collections of Stars Look Like?
Astrobites reports on simulations of the first groups of stars in our universe, which reveal how these groups evolve and where they might be hiding in the local universe.
22 August 2016
When Charged Black Holes Merge
New research shows that mergers of charged black holes could generate a variety of observable signatures, from fast radio bursts to gamma-ray bursts.