Features

A Strange Brown Dwarf Gets Stranger

A brown dwarf that made headlines for showing signs of auroral activity is back in JWST’s sights — and it’s now doubly interesting.

Illustration of a tidal disruption event

The tidal disruption event AT 2024tvd happened outside the nucleus of its host galaxy, indicating the presence of a wandering or recoiling massive black hole. What can radio observations tell us about this unusual event?

Illustration of a binary system containing two white dwarfs

Astrobites reports on the explosive origins of hyper-velocity survivor stars.

nova

A recent study finds that a recurrent nova may be powered by a rare Be star–white dwarf binary system, broadening the scope of possible novae origins.

WISPIT 2b

Growing planets need to eat, and astronomers just found one snacking on gas in between the rings of a protoplanetary disk.

Illustration of a giant planet with a large moon orbiting a distant star

Astrobites reports on how we might someday detect moons around planets outside our solar system by precisely tracking the positions of a star and a planet.

Hubble Ultra Deep Field as seen by JWST

AAS Nova turned 10 this year! For our 2,000th post, we’re looking back on the past decade of astronomy research.

illustration of a planetary system
Astrobites

Planetary Hide and Seek

Astrobites reports on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems.

Infrared studies of resolved supernova remnants beyond the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are now within reach.