Highlights from AAS Nova: 27 November - 10 December 2022

AAS Nova provides brief highlights of recently published articles from the AAS journals, i.e., The Astronomical Journal (AJ), The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), ApJ Letters, ApJ Supplements, The Planetary Science Journal, and Research Notes of the AAS. The website's intent is to gain broader exposure for AAS authors and to provide astronomy researchers and enthusiasts with summaries of recent, interesting research across a wide range of astronomical fields.

The following are the AAS Nova highlights from the past two weeks; follow the links to read more, or visit AAS Nova for more posts.

9 December 2022
Dotting the i’s, Crossing the t’s: Follow-Up of an Exo-Venus
Fortune favors astronomers who take meticulous follow-up observations: sometimes you set out to confirm one planet candidate and end up authenticating two.

7 December 2022
JWST Reveals Star-Formation Details in a Dusty Galaxy
The interacting galaxies of VV 114 have been observed with many space- and ground-based telescopes, but astronomers have never seen them quite like this before.

6 December 2022
Planets Around Not-Quite-Planets
Astrobites reports on the detection of a possible transiting exoplanet around a brown dwarf.

5 December 2022
Understanding Magnetic Knots in Delta Sunspots
Researchers study rare, flare-producing sunspots to understand what makes them different from sunspots that don’t produce flares.

2 December 2022
Sizing Up Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
JWST observations might make astronomers rethink established “rules” that govern how galaxies of different masses and star-formation rates evolve.

30 November 2022
Four Perspectives on Neutron Stars, Pulsars, and Magnetars
Four recent articles give different perspectives on the ultra-dense, rapidly spinning, highly magnetized remnants of massive stars.

29 November 2022
Zooming In on an Active Galactic Nucleus Outflow with JWST
Astrobites reports on how the outflows from NGC 7469’s active galactic nucleus interact with the surrounding interstellar medium.

28 November 2022
Featured Image: Considering Craters on Uranus’s Moon Miranda
Icy solar system moons typically have sharp, well-defined craters, but Uranus’s moon Miranda has gentler surface features. What makes Miranda’s craters so subtle?