1,000 AAS Nova Highlights and Five Years of Astronomy
Today we celebrate a milestone for AAS Nova and reflect on some of what’s happened in astronomy in the past five years.
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Faint Jewels: Discovering The Brilliance of Dwarf Galaxies
Astrobites reports on active galactic nuclei discovered within dwarf galaxies with the MaNGA survey.
Featured Image: Investigating Venus’s Volcanic Activity in the Lab
Is Venus still volcanically active today? The differences between the two rocks shown here point to an answer.
Hints of Young Solar Systems
How did our solar system’s planets first form within the swirling disk of gas and dust that surrounded the newborn Sun? New observations from ALMA provide clues.
Searching for Patterns from Feeding Supermassive Black Holes
Scientists have gone on the hunt for feeding supermassive black holes that show periodic patterns in their varying high-energy light.
Salt and Hot Water Around Massive Protostars
Astrobites reports on the discovery of table salt and super-heated water in two massive protostellar disks, hinting at a new type of “hot-disk” chemistry.
An Infant Pulsar Defies Categorization
Pulsars have historically been classified into different categories — but the distinction between them may be blurrier than we thought.
There’s Metal in the Air
What metals can be found in the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters?
The Contradiction of a Low-Mass Massive Black Hole
A new discovery sheds some light on the gray area that lies between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes.
The Fault in Our (Unaligned) Stars
If dark matter didn’t exist, the visible matter in the universe should be able to explain all gravitational phenomena. But can it? Astrobites reports.
Featured Image: Smashing Spheres of Ice
New laboratory experiments explode hollow ice spheres to learn about catastrophic collisions in the early solar system.
A Stellar Flyby Makes Some Waves
In a new study, scientists watch how two disks surrounding young stars interact during a stellar flyby.