Highlights from AAS Nova: 3-16 April 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 the AAS Nova web page for more posts.

15 April 2022
Can Solar Dimming Shine a New Light on Coronal Mass Ejections?
The brightness of the Sun’s corona could indicate when nasty space weather events are headed our way.

13 April 2022
Bringing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers to Light
With gravitational waves from supermassive black hole mergers still out of reach, astronomers are exploring other ways to track them down.

12 April 2022
An Intracluster Investigation via Radio Rotation
Astrobites reports on how magnetic fields in galaxy clusters evolved throughout cosmic history and what these fields can tell us about magnetism in the early universe.

11 April 2022
Taking a Closer Look at SPRITEs with Hubble
What can visible-light observations tell us about an unusual class of moderately luminous infrared transients?

8 April 2022
Seeking Missing Matter in Hot Halos
Astronomers study photons from the early universe to search for hard-to-find matter in Milky Way-like spiral galaxies.

6 April 2022
Finding Strange Stars with Primordial Black Holes
Extremely dense stars composed entirely of elementary particles called strange quarks might exist throughout the universe. Can gravitational waves emitted from an encounter with miniature black holes reveal them?

5 April 2022
A Spiral Galaxy That Doesn’t Play by the Rules
Astrobites reports on a spiral-shaped impostor found where an elliptical galaxy is meant to be: shining brightly in the center of a galaxy cluster.

4 April 2022
Featured Image: Symbiotic Star’s Nebula Shines in X-rays
Close binary system R Aquarii dazzles in archival observations, revealing diffuse X-ray emission for the first time.