Highlights from AAS Nova: 11-24 November 2018

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.

21 November 2018
The Shape of Cosmic Dawn
Earlier this year, we spotted the fingerprint of the very first stars in the universe. What does the shape of this signal reveal about cosmic dawn?

20 November 2018
Old but Gold: A Huge Primordial Protocluster
A guest author for Astrobites reports on a super dense, massive, and old galaxy protocluster and what it tells us about our universe’s history.

19 November 2018
A Home for Another Fast Radio Burst
The discovery of one fast radio burst’s nearby home may bring us a little closer to understanding the origin of these mysterious pulses.

16 November 2018
The Origin of Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks
Do gaps and rings in a protoplanetary disk necessarily point to planets, or could snowlines be the cause?

14 November 2018
A Black Hole X-Ray Binary Rises
New observations have captured a feeding black hole in our galaxy as it bursts onto the scene.

13 November 2018
Black Holes during the Cosmic Dawn
Astrobites explores how some of the first black holes might have broadly affected the universe around them.

12 November 2018
Featured Image: Turbulence in a Solar Current Sheet
Long, thin current sheets — like the one extending from the Sun in this spectacular image — may be much more turbulent than we’d realized.