Masamune Matsuda et al 2022 ApJ 940 105
Researchers detect for the first time X-ray emission from interstellar medium gas swept up by the expansion of Tycho’s supernova remnant — what’s left after a supernova that was observed in 1572.
Shuai Xu et al 2022 ApJS 263 29
A new catalog of metal-poor stars in the Milky Way provides targets for studies of nucleosynthesis in the early universe, which can be probed with spectroscopic follow up.
Samantha K. Trumbo et al 2022 Planet. Sci. J. 3 272
New spectral maps of the surface of the most volcanically active body in the solar system — Jupiter’s moon Io — confirm previous findings that the sulfurous frost on the moon’s surface is stable for decades.
Kun Hu et al 2022 ApJ 940 91
A research team considered the factors that block the propagation of photons within the region governed by the intense magnetic field of a magnetar: the extremely dense, rapidly rotating core of a dead massive star.
Hanae Inami et al 2022 ApJL 940 L6
JWST observations open a new window onto a luminous infrared galaxy, pinning down its brilliant emission to a source less than 1,100 light-years across and dredging up five new star-forming sources.
Kohei Miyakawa et al 2022 AJ 164 209
It may be far more difficult to detect planets around rapidly rotating (period less than one day) M dwarfs, which might explain why planets in the Pleiades star cluster have been hard to come by.