Andriana Strezoski and Allan H. Treiman 2022 Planet. Sci. J. 3 264
Venus’s tallest mountain has a line above which metallic and semi-metallic compounds are present on the planet’s surface, and the snow line shows signs of a “snow shadow” where the mountain blocks the winds.
Réka Könyves-Tóth 2022 ApJ 940 69
Differences in pre-explosion spectra of certain superluminous supernovae are correlated with differences in temperature, polarization, ejecta velocity, and, potentially, light-curve evolution.
Wei Song et al 2022 ApJS 263 25
A new method can turn low-resolution solar images into high-resolution ones, using a technique in which a computer learns to undo the process of adding noise to high-resolution images.
Apurba Bera et al 2022 ApJL 940 L10
Galaxies with large reservoirs of neutral hydrogen gas were relatively uncommon four billion years ago compared to now, which suggests that massive galaxies today have gained gas through mergers and accretion.
Carrie Filion et al 2022 ApJ 939 38
The stellar initial mass function — in other words, the mass distribution of stars formed from a single gas cloud — for the Boötes I ultra-faint dwarf galaxy is consistent with that of the Milky Way.
Patrick O’Brien and Shane Byrne 2022 Planet. Sci. J. 3 258
Researchers have created the first map of double shadows on the Moon: regions permanently shielded from sunlight as well as scattered light, creating cold traps that could harbor carbon dioxide ice.