Highlights from AAS Nova: 10-21 January 2017

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.

20 January 2017
The Search for Lensed Supernovae
Type Ia supernovae gravitationally lensed into multiple images can provide us with a wealth of information. But how do we find them?

18 January 2017
Reinflating Giant Planets
A new study explores what happens to close-in hot Jupiters when their host stars reach the end of their main-sequence lifetimes.

17 January 2017
A Too-Hot Pulsar Speeding Through the Galaxy
Astrobites reports on a pulsar that’s preceded by a bow shock as it tears through the Milky Way.

13 January 2017
The Impact of Stars on Moons
Where are all the exomoons? A new study suggests stellar radiation might cause them to escape their planets’ pulls.

11 January 2017
Neptune as a Mirror for the Sun
How would the Kepler mission see a star like the Sun? Reflections of the Sun off of Neptune have now answered this question.

10 January 2017
A Counterpart for Fast Radio Bursts
Astrobites reports on the first detection of a possible gamma-ray counterpart to a mysterious fast radio burst.