Highlights from AAS Nova: 27 October – 9 November 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.

8 November 2024
A Bubbly Origin for Odd Radio Circles
New simulations show how odd radio circles could form when supermassive black hole jets blow bubbles in intergalactic gas.

6 November 2024
Discovery of a Lonely Galactic Hedgehog
The Hedgehog galaxy is one of the most isolated dwarf galaxies known — but despite its serene location, it might not have formed any new stars in the past 100 million years.

4 November 2024
Featured Image: Finding Swirls on Jupiter
Citizen scientists have identified 7,000 swirling vortices on Jupiter, leading to some surprising findings.

1 November 2024
Down to the Core: Dark Matter Deviations in Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies
Does the standard cold dark matter model of the universe work on small scales? The dark matter distributions of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies seem to deviate from what is expected, implying a need to rethink how dark matter behaves.

30 October 2024
Monthly Roundup (Halloween Edition): Graveyards of Shredded Stars
Researchers have identified dozens of stars tidally disrupted by black holes, and upcoming surveys may discover 1,000 of these rare events each year. Today's Monthly Roundup introduces three studies that have advanced our understanding of shredded stars.

29 October 2024
Testing Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey Five-Year Supernova Dataset
Astrobites reports on tests of cosmological models using measurements of nearly 2,000 supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey and other sources.

28 October 2024
Monster Shocks from Collapsing Magnetars
The collapse of a magnetar into a black hole may power the strongest shocks in the universe and produce brief, bright flashes of gamma rays.