AAS 246: Day 2
On Day 2 of AAS 246, we heard about active galactic nucleus feedback, learned how planets fare in systems with multiple stars, and saw fantastic new images of the Sun.
Finishing Off an Asteroid
Astronomers may have spotted the crumbs of a recently eaten asteroid around a white dwarf star.
Using fast radio bursts, researchers have measured just how empty cosmic voids truly are.
Astrobites reports on a whodunit of cosmic significance: who killed star formation in massive elliptical galaxies?
Citizen scientists from the Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative recorded nearly an hour of coronal behavior during the 8 April 2024 solar eclipse.
Spying on a Split Comet
A recent study investigated the possible mechanisms that caused a known Jupiter-family comet to split in two.
A recent Focus Issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters introduces the fourth version of the gravitational wave transient catalog from the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations.
The “Rhythm” of the Interstellar Medium
Astrobites reports on the interplay between the interstellar medium and star formation in simulated galaxies.
What powers the prominent helium emission from Hebe, a gas clump seen just 450 million years after the Big Bang?