Highlights from AAS Nova: 9-22 February 2020

AAS Nova provides brief highlights of recently published articles from the AAS journals, i.e., The Astronomical Journal (AJ), The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), ApJ Letters, ApJ Supplements, The Planetary Science Journal, and Research Notes of the AAS. 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 February 2020
Gravitational Waves After Galaxy Collisions
Collisions of tiny galaxies may be responsible for forming the black-hole binaries that we’ve recently seen merge.

19 February 2020
Exploring Our Star with SunPy
How can solar physicists analyze their mountains of observational data? A new Python-based software package may help.

18 February 2020
The TESS Mission’s First Earth-Like Planet Found in an Interesting Trio
Astrobites reports on the TESS mission’s discovery of an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of its star — and the puzzle of how this system formed.

17 February 2020
ALMA Explores Possible Interacting Twin Disks
Why do many young stars undergo bright outbursts? New observations of a flaring system may provide an answer.

14 February 2020
Making Stars at the Beginning of the Universe
What were the first galaxies up to? New radio observations tell us about star formation when the universe was only a billion years old.

12 February 2020
A Pulsed Discovery in Omega Centauri
A new study has unveiled a discovery at the heart of globular cluster Omega Centauri: five long-anticipated pulsars.

11 February 2020
TESS Reveals HD 118203 b Transits After 13 Years
The exoplanet hunter TESS is out searching for new worlds — but on this occasion, it saw an old one in a new light. Astrobites reports.

10 February 2020
Featured Image: The Heart of the Rosette Nebula
A recent study explores the population of stars that lies deep in the heart of the Rosette Nebula.