Highlights from AAS Nova: 16-29 August 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.

28 August 2020
A Stellar Pinwheel at a New Wavelength
A recent study explores a spiral pattern spotted around an unexpected source.

26 August 2020
Opportunities from a Newly Discovered Planetary System
Recently found: two nearby, intriguingly puffy planets that will make ideal targets for future observations.

25 August 2020
Investigating Black Hole Formation
Astrobites reports on recent black hole mass measurements and what they say about how black holes may have formed in the early universe.

24 August 2020
Will Radio Bursts Reveal Hidden Baryons?
A recent study has used bursts of radio emission to probe whether the outskirts of our galaxy are hiding vast quantities of “missing” baryonic matter.

21 August 2020
Getting Deeper into the Main Sequence with Gaia
Combining Gaia data with the HR diagram — a plot of star colors and brightnesses — can tell us new things about the lives of stars.

19 August 2020
The Impact of Land on an Ocean World’s Habitability
A new study explores how oceans and continents affect whether a habitable-zone planet can actually support life.

18 August 2020
Tuning In to Reveal Stellar Wobbles
Astrobites reports on the second exoplanet ever discovered via precise measurements of a star’s changing position.

17 August 2020
Featured Image: A Solar Eclipse from the Ground and Space
This stunning image of the Sun and its corona is composited from hundreds of individual frames captured during a solar eclipse.