
Looking Back on a Year of Astronomy News with AAS Nova
Join us as we close out the year by looking back on some of the most-read AAS Nova highlights from 2022.
Join us as we close out the year by looking back on some of the most-read AAS Nova highlights from 2022.
Satellites are increasingly prevalent in orbit around Earth and in our astronomical images. How has the impact of Starlink satellites changed over time, and what are the prospects for the future?
If the orbit of our solar system’s most massive planet were slightly different, would it make Earth more or less hospitable to life?
OJ 287 is an active galactic nucleus containing one of the most massive black holes currently known. New observations give insight into its magnetic field structure and jet creation.
The very first image from JWST held plenty of surprises. Researchers investigated several “sparkles” that might be individual globular clusters seen from billions of light-years away.
The loose surface material on certain types of asteroids contains small amounts of nutrients necessary for plants. But can Earth plants really grow in space “soil”?
Astronomers found one of the most luminous known extragalactic radio pulsars, which may have previously escaped noticed due to its unusual pulse profile.
Would human-collected data lead us to the same conclusions as rover-collected data? Since we can’t (yet) send human geologists to Mars, scientists used human “rovers” on Earth to find out.
Massive stars that collapse to form black holes might be one way to make heavy metals. Now, astronomers have explored ways to identify heavy-metal creation from supernova light curves.
Astrobites reports on a sextuple star system and efforts to measure the six stars’ masses once and for all.
A fast-moving pulsar has created a spectacular guitar-shaped wake that astronomers have been studying for more than 25 years.
Fortune favors astronomers who take meticulous follow-up observations: sometimes you set out to confirm one planet candidate and end up authenticating two.