Highlights from AAS Nova: 21 June - 4 July 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.

1 July 2020
A Young Population of Hidden Jets
A recent study has revealed hidden young, powerful jets flung from around supermassive black holes in the distant universe.

30 June 2020
Discovering the Building Blocks of Nuclear Star Clusters
A new look at 20 years of multi-wavelength data has revealed a triplet system of star clusters hidden in a galaxy center. Astrobites reports.

29 June 2020
Alignment of a Star and a Planet
New measurements of a nearby star with a wide-orbit planet provide insight into how solar systems form.

26 June 2020
Orbits Evolving Under Gravity
How does the overall gravitational influence of the solar system affect smaller bodies within it?

24 June 2020
Transiting Brown Dwarfs from TESS
Astrobites reports on the TESS discovery of two transiting brown dwarfs to fill in the “brown dwarf desert”.

23 June 2020
LIGO-Virgo’s New Find Shakes Things Up
Neutron star or black hole? That’s the question scientists are asking about the latest gravitational-wave detection from the LIGO and Virgo observatories.

22 June 2020
Featured Image: Forming Betelgeuse from a Stellar Merger
New research suggests the familiar red supergiant Betelgeuse may be the outcome of one star in a binary pair consuming the other.