A planet’s aurorae (like the northern lights on Earth) can tell us about the planet itself — but we’ve never before detected aurorae from an exoplanet. Astrobites reports on the prospect of observing aurorae from Proxima Centauri b.
Many galaxies host extremely dense clusters of stars in their cores. Observations of these clusters help us explore how they might have formed.
Do you use collaborative document preparation software like Authorea or Overleaf? If so, submitting to AAS journals just got easier.
Why is the Sun’s atmosphere so much hotter than its surface? A new study explores the role of magnetic waves in heating the Sun’s corona.
Galactic bars channel gas into the central regions of spiral galaxies to birth new stars. Astrobites reports on whether they are also responsible for lighting up their black holes.
Neptune’s moon system is not what we would expect for a gas giant in our solar system — and its largest moon, Triton, may be to blame.
Only a small fraction of the cold hydrogen gas in the local universe is molecular gas, able to directly fuel star formation. But is this also true at earlier times in our universe?
RNAAS is a new home for your brief science communications that are likely to be interesting or useful to members of the astronomical community.
Astrobites reports on how we can better understand the signatures in exoplanet atmospheres — something that we can use in our search for life on other planets.
Gas and dust can get in the way of our view of the Milky Way’s center! A new study uses tens of millions of stars to map this extinction.
Astrobites reports on the unusually behaving pulsar PSR J1023+0038.
It seems like science is increasingly being done with advanced detectors on enormous ground- and space-based telescopes. One might wonder: is there anything left to learn from observations made with small telescopes?