Ice Trapped in Craters on Ceres Is Surprisingly Young

The dwarf planet Ceres hosts water ice in cold, shadowed craters. New research suggests that these ice deposits are remarkably young. aasnova.org/2024/04/24/ice… Planetary Science Institute (PSI)

The Case of Shrinking Planets

astrobites's Tori Bonidie reports on whether photoevaporation or core-powered mass loss is more likely to be responsible for the exoplanet radius gap. aasnova.org/2024/04/23/the…

Early Observations May Separate “Ordinary” Supernovae from Intriguing Ones

If caught just a few days later, SN 2022jox would’ve looked like just another ordinary core-collapse supernova. aasnova.org/2024/04/22/ear… NOIRLab

Devising a Test for Special Relativity

New research explores a way to probe for cracks in special relativity with a subtle measurement of gamma-ray photons. aasnova.org/2024/04/19/dev… U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

How to Tell Space Rocks from Space Junk

One person’s space junk is another’s research opportunity: scientists study an artificial object mistaken for an asteroid to understand how to identify these objects in future surveys. aasnova.org/2024/04/17/how… UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies: Not as Small as We Thought?

astrobites's Brandon Pries reports on how astronomers use pulsating stars to look for stellar halos around ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, some of the smallest galaxies in the universe.

Featured Image: A Suite of Exploding Stars

A new suite of supernova simulations allows researchers to find correlations between the properties of these cosmic explosions and properties of the stars they came from. aasnova.org/2024/04/15/fea… Princeton University Research Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

Cosmic Rays Near and Far

How do cosmic rays move through the galaxy? Thanks to data collected by the aging Voyager 1 spacecraft, astronomers are closer to finding out. aasnova.org/2024/04/12/cos…

Measuring Ages from Craters on Giant Planet Satellites

The cratered surfaces of moons record impacts reaching back billions of years. How do researchers measure the ages of these surfaces, and what can these ages tell us about how the moons formed? aasnova.org/2024/04/10/mea…

Still craving some Sun science after the magical #SolarEclipse2024 ? Worry not because AAS Nova has put together very nice write-ups of 3 recent solar physics research articles, including our work on exceptional observations of a CME at Mercury's orbit: aasnova.org/2024/04/08/mon… ☀️

Tragic Tidal Disruption Events: How Black Holes Shred Stars

astrobites's Sonja Panjkov reports on a tragic final encounter between a supermassive black hole and a stellar neighbor that came a bit too close. aasnova.org/2024/04/09/tra…

Monthly Roundup: Solar Science on a Solar Eclipse Day!

Take a moment to delve into three solar physics research articles with us today to learn how researchers are studying our home star. aasnova.org/2024/04/08/mon…

What Do Accretion Disk Models Remember?

If simulations “remember” the conditions they started with, that could complicate the modeling of magnetized accretion disks around supermassive black holes. aasnova.org/2024/04/05/wha…

Evidence Says Some Blue Stars Come from Two Stars

The merger of two stars can make a blue supergiant, suggesting that many of the galaxy’s brightest stars are not born, but made. aasnova.org/2024/04/03/blu…

Ghost (Particle) Hunting in Gamma-ray Bursts

astrobites's sam reports on a study that aims to determine whether the sources of gamma-ray bursts could also be a source of ghostly neutrinos. aasnova.org/2024/04/02/gho…

Featured Image: Giant Star-Forming Cloud

A giant star-forming region in the Milky Way has a new infrared portrait, thanks to a telescope flying through the stratosphere. aasnova.org/2024/04/01/fea…

Making Computers Count Pulses

Fitting models to pulsar arrival times is typically a tricky business. A new algorithm might let computers take on some of the decision-making burdens. aasnova.org/2024/03/29/mak… WVU Physics & Astro

A New Way of Looking at the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has analyzed data that show our home galaxy’s central black hole in a new light — polarized light, to be precise. aasnova.org/2024/03/27/a-n… Event Horizon 'Scope

How to Tell If a Black Hole Is Making Your Fairy Lights Twinkle

astrobites's storm reports on how we can find isolated black holes by searching for the twinkling of stars that these black holes pass in front of. aasnova.org/2024/03/26/how…

Crystallization, Convection, and a Magnetic White Dwarf Mystery

When white dwarfs begin to crystallize, can the change prompt the formation of magnetic fields millions of times stronger than Earth's? aasnova.org/2024/03/25/cry… CU Boulder News & Experts