16 March 2021

Highlights from AAS Nova: 28 February - 13 March 2021

Susanna Kohler

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), 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.

Image of the Sun rising behind the Earth's horizon with the text "Discover what's new in the universe", the AAS Nova logo, and "aasnova.org" superposed.

 

The following are the AAS Nova highlights from the past two weeks; follow the links to read more, or visit the AAS Nova web page for more posts.

12 March 2021
AAS Publishing News: An Interview with the AAS Journals Data Editors
Our AAS journals data editors help authors make their data accessible, attractive, long-lived, and useful to other scientists. Read on to meet them and find out how!

10 March 2021
Gravitational Waves Shed Light on How Heavy a Neutron Star Can Be
Recent gravitational-wave events are providing new insight into the maximum mass a neutron star can achieve before collapsing into a black hole.

9 March 2021
Smashing Neutrons: On the Origin of Extreme r-Process Enhanced Stars
Heavy elements require extreme conditions to be produced. Astrobites explores three unique stars that may give us additional clues to how that happens.

8 March 2021
Featured Image: Decline of a Young Planetary Nebula
The youngest known planetary nebula has faded dramatically in the last couple decades.

5 March 2021
To Make Measurements of Elusive Magnetic Fields
Could we directly observe the magnetic fields associated with certain types of solar activity?

3 March 2021
Exploding Stars in Black Hole Disks
Recent work explores whether we can detect the signatures of fiery explosions from dying stars in disks around supermassive black holes.

2 March 2021
Masquerade! Dwarf Nova Faces on Parade
We aren’t seeing as many classical novae as we’d expect. Astrobites explores recent research checking whether they’re masquerading as dwarf novae.

1 March 2021
Studying Near-Earth Asteroids with Radar
A new study explores how we can better examine nearby asteroids by bouncing radio light off of them.

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