Highlights from AAS Nova: 19 February - 4 March 2017
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.
3 March 2017
Where Do Messy Planetary Nebulae Come From?
Many planetary nebulae are too “messy” in morphology to be explained by the standard model of how they form.
1 March 2017
The Birth of Disks Around Protostars
How do the dusty disks around young stars first form and evolve around their newly born stars?
28 February 2017
Preparing for the Temperature Drop at Night
How big is the dayside vs. nightside temperature difference for a tidally-locked hot Jupiter? Astrobites reports on new models of these extreme exoplanet atmospheres.
27 February 2017
A Challenge to Our View of How Stars Die
For the first time ever, we’ve been able to watch the complete metamorphosis of an unusual explosion from one type of supernova to another — challenging our understanding of the deaths of massive stars.
24 February 2017
ALMA Explores How Supermassive Black Holes Talk to Their Galaxies
How do supermassive black holes and their host galaxies evolve in tandem? Observations from ALMA have revealed new clues about how the two might communicate.
22 February 2017
A Planet Soon to Meet Its Demise
A tiny telescope has discovered a scalding hot world. KELT-16b may only be around for a few more hundreds of thousands of years, however.
21 February 2017
Can You Tell a Sibling from a Doppelganger?
Astrobites reports on the usefulness of abundance analysis, or chemical tagging, to identify stars with a common birth. Do dopplegangers confuse the outcome?
20 February 2017
Featured Image: Structures in the Interstellar Medium
A new survey has provided a high-resolution look at some of the structures in the diffuse hydrogen gas of our galaxy.