Highlights from AAS Nova: 6–19 July 2025

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. You can also sign up to receive emails each time a new post is published.

18 July 2025
Written in the Gas: Jet Feedback in a Voorwerp Galaxy
Astrobites reports on the origins of the unusual green structure surrounding the active galaxy NGC 5972.

16 July 2025
Astronomers Spot Possible Disk in Rubin Observatory First-Look Image
One of the first-look images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory contained a rare find: a candidate circumstellar or protoplanetary disk in a region where few such disks have been discovered.

16 July 2025
A Candidate Direct-Collapse Black Hole in the Infinity Galaxy
A search for oddities in archival JWST data has turned up something remarkable: a rare pair of collisional ring galaxies that may have birthed a supermassive black hole during their clash.

14 July 2025
Featured Image: Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs in a Class of Their Own?
JWST observations of the young star cluster IC 348 revealed extremely low-mass brown dwarfs with signatures of hydrocarbons in their spectra: meet the members of the proposed "H" spectral class.

11 July 2025
Double Disruption Dilemma: Exploring the Tidal Disruption Events of AT 2022dbl
A recently discovered tidal disruption event has astronomers investigating new ways in which stars may be ripped apart by supermassive black holes.

9 July 2025
Minding the Gaps in Solar Wind Data
A new method for handling data with significant gaps can be applied to extremely sparse datasets, such as Voyager data from the outer heliosphere.

8 July 2025
You Shall Not Pass! Active Galactic Nucleus Jets Through the Interstellar Medium
Astrobites reports on simulations that improve our understanding of how jets from active galactic nuclei interact with the interstellar medium.

7 July 2025
Exo-Saturns and Exo-Jupiters Are Within JWST’s Reach
New research suggests that JWST is capable of directly imaging planets that resemble the gas giants in our solar system, provided they orbit nearby stars.

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