Kevin M. Flaherty et al 2016 ApJ 833 104

~80% of the 30 young stellar objects observed by Spitzer in the Chamaeleon I cluster displayed variability on timescales of months, likely caused by structural or temperature fluctuations in the inner disk.

Daniel F. Evans et al 2016 ApJL 833 L19

WASP-20 has been discovered to be a close binary stellar system with a separation of ~60 AU, orbited by a transiting “hot Saturn” that has a ~5 day period.

Mercedes López-Morales et al 2016 AJ 152 204

An analysis of 82 new radial-velocity observations of Kepler-21, the brightest exoplanet host discovered by Kepler, show that Kepler-21b is a rocky exoplanet of roughly 5 times Earth’s mass.

T. M. Crawford et al 2016 ApJS 227 23

New maps, now available for download, have been created of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. They were built in three bands overlapping between the South Pole Telescope and Planck.

T. Iino et al 2016 AJ 152 179

19 years after comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided with Jupiter, gaseous carbon monosulfide caused by the collision is still detectable in Jupiter’s atmosphere — though at a 90% decrease from the levels in 1998.

Min Fang et al 2016 ApJL 833 L16

A young (<0.5 Myr) planet candidate — surrounded by a protoplanetary disk that is being evaporated by its host star — has been found at the center of the Orion Nebula Cluster.