Highlights from AAS Nova: 1–14 September 2024

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 AAS Nova for more posts.

13 September 2024
Hunting for a Target on the Fly
New Horizons’ next target beyond Pluto was discovered mid-flight in a search that forged a path for present-day planetary science. A recent publication reviews this hunt and tells the story of this remarkable discovery.

11 September 2024
Evaporating Stars, Magnetars, and Bumpy Supernova Light Curves
Some supernovae have bumps in their light curves. New research shows that unusual binary systems containing a magnetar and an unlucky companion star can explain some of these bumps.

10 September 2024
It’s An Eyeball Summer, and Other Weird K/M-Dwarf Habitable Climate Tales
Astrobites reports on the climates of planets orbiting stars that are smaller, cooler, and more common than Sun-like stars.

9 September 2024
Homing In on Host Galaxies of Fast Radio Bursts
Researchers have detected about a thousand powerful yet fleeting radio signals called fast radio bursts. What do the home galaxies of these bursts tell us about where they come from?

6 September 2024
Complex Composition: The Origins of J1010+2358
Stars hundreds of times the mass of the Sun likely formed during the universe’s debut into star formation. Could the star J1010+2358 be a direct descendant of one of these elusive first-generation massive stars?

4 September 2024
Welcome to AAS Media Fellow Lexi Gault and Farewell to Ben Cassese
Please join us in saying farewell to our 2022–2024 AAS Media Fellow and welcoming our new Fellow to the team!

3 September 2024
Can We Please Have the Black Hole Origin Story?
Astrobites reports on a hunt for intermediate-mass black holes and what this search tells us about how black holes formed in the early universe.