Water World or Land Planet: What Determines Ocean Coverage on Rocky Exoplanets?
Dip your toes into the science of planetary surfaces with today’s article about oceans on water-rich exoplanets.
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A Serving of X-rays in a Stack of Galaxies
Astrobites reports on how stacking galaxies can help us understand the quenching of star formation early in the universe.
An AWSoM Model of the Sun
Solar physicists have simulated conditions in and around a solar active region using a particularly high-resolution model of the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time.
A Glimpse of a New Transient Source in the Milky Way
What’s the cause of the new X-ray source MAXI J1848-015 that flared into view for only a few days?
Making Misaligned Planets
What determines whether a planet orbiting two stars does so in the same plane as the binary system, perpendicular to it, or somewhere in between?
A Black Hole Snow Globe? An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole at the Center of a Globular Cluster
Astobites reports on a possible intermediate-mass black hole discovered in an unusual globular cluster belonging to our galactic neighbor, Andromeda.
Featured Image: A Cosmic Butterfly Spreads Its Wings
What do new Hubble observations reveal about the young, massive planetary nebula NGC 6302?
![Galaxy with a big halo [made of dark matter] surrounding it](https://aasnova.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/halo-351x185.jpg "Spinning Halos in the Cosmic Web")
Spinning Halos in the Cosmic Web
What can studying the spins of galaxies and their associated dark matter halos tell us about cosmology?
How Crowded Are Quasar Neighborhoods in the Early Universe?
Astronomers use an array of radio telescopes to search for the galactic neighbors of some of the brightest objects in the universe.
Hydrate or Die-drate: Was Venus Ever Habitable?
Astrobites reports on models of Venus’s atmosphere that seek to understand whether Earth’s twin could have had expansive oceans in the past.
Surveying the Universe with Rubin Observatory
A new focus issue examines the survey strategy for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
Magnetar Pulses Seen in a New Light
Astronomers have captured submillimeter pulses from a highly magnetized, city-sized stellar remnant for the first time.