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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 1d

Kylee Carden reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how we might someday detect moons around planets outside our solar system by precisely tracking the positions of a star and a planet. aasnova.org/2025/10/06/f... 🔭

Finding Avatar’s Pandora: Exomoons with Astrometry

Astrobites reports on how we might someday detect moons around planets outside our solar system by precisely tracking the positions of a star and a planet.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 4d

AAS Nova turned 10 this year! For our 2,000th post, we’re looking back on the past decade of astronomy research. aasnova.org/2025/10/03/a... @aas.org 🔭🧪

AAS Nova Celebrates 10 Years of Astronomy Research News

AAS Nova turned 10 this year! For our 2,000th post, we're looking back on the past decade of astronomy research.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 6d

Tori Bonidie reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems. aasnova.org/2025/10/01/p... 🔭

Planetary Hide and Seek

Astrobites reports on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 8d

Infrared studies of resolved supernova remnants beyond the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are now within reach. aasnova.org/2025/09/29/f... 🔭🧪

Featured Image: JWST Expands the Search for Extragalactic Supernova Remnants

Infrared studies of resolved supernova remnants beyond the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are now within reach.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 11d

Using high-resolution JWST observations, a recent study has found a supermassive black hole at the center of an ultracompact dwarf galaxy. 🧪🔭

Supermassive Black Hole in a Super Tiny Galaxy Found with JWST

Using high-resolution JWST observations, a recent study has found a supermassive black hole at the center of an ultracompact dwarf galaxy.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 13d

Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off. aasnova.org/2025/09/24/k... 🔭🧪

Kicking Neutron Stars from the Nest

Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 15d

Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on supermassive black holes in the early universe that may have been hiding phases of their growth. aasnova.org/2025/09/22/a... 🔭

Are Quasars Growing in Secret?

Astrobites reports on supermassive black holes in the early universe that may have been hiding phases of their growth.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 18d

To push the limits of high-precision pulsar measurements, astronomers have reconsidered their approach to data stacking. aasnova.org/2025/09/19/c... 🔭🧪

Cluster Before Stack: A New Algorithm for Pulsar Timing

To push the limits of high-precision pulsar measurements, astronomers have reconsidered their approach to data stacking.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 20d

Caroline von Raesfeld reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on research that explores if we’ll be able to find a star that has formed from the gas enriched by only one stellar predecessor. aasnova.org/2025/09/17/l... 🔭

Looking for a Single Stellar Ancestor: Mono-Enriched Stars in Zoom-In Simulations

Astrobites reports on research that explores if we’ll be able to find a star that has formed from the gas enriched by only one stellar predecessor.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 22d

Our galaxy likely contains far more supernova remnants than we’ve found so far. What progress have recent radio surveys made in the hunt for supernova remnants? aasnova.org/2025/09/15/f... 🔭🧪

Featured Image: Hunting for Missing Supernova Remnants with EMU and POSSUM

Our galaxy likely contains far more supernova remnants than we've found so far. What progress have recent radio surveys made in the hunt for supernova remnants?

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 25d

Using CHIME, a new collaboration has embarked on a journey to discover pulsars across the northern sky. 🧪🔭 aasnova.org/2025/09/12/c...

Chiming In on the Pulsar Search: Searching for Pulsars with CHIME

Using CHIME, a new collaboration has embarked on a journey to discover pulsars across the northern sky.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 27d

Say a star wandered close enough to a black hole to be partially ripped apart, but lived to tell the tale. What does the rest of its life look like? aasnova.org/2025/09/10/s... 🔭🧪

Scars from a Black Hole

Say a star wandered close enough to a black hole to be partially ripped apart, but lived to tell the tale. What does the rest of its life look like?

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 29d

Niloofar Sharei reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on a surprising dust curve in a distant galaxy that challenges what we know about cosmic dust. aasnova.org/2025/09/08/a... 🔭

A Dust Curve That Breaks the Mold

Astobites reports on a surprising dust curve in a distant galaxy that challenges what we know about cosmic dust.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Sep 5

Researchers present the first-ever millimeter-wavelength map of Callisto, the coldest and most weather-worn of Jupiter’s major moons. aasnova.org/2025/09/05/a... @caltech.edu 🔭🧪

A Close Look at an Ancient Moon

Researchers present the first-ever millimeter-wavelength map of Callisto, the coldest and most weather-worn of Jupiter's major moons.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Sep 3

Kasper Zoellner reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how clouds might actually be a good thing when it comes to detecting biosignatures with NASA’s proposed next-generation space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory. aasnova.org/2025/09/03/w... 🔭

Weather Forecast for the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Cloudy with a Chance of Biosignatures

Astrobites reports on how clouds might actually be a good thing when it comes to detecting biosignatures with NASA's proposed next-generation space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 29

Little red dots have been confusing astronomers since their discovery by JWST. What are the origins of these distant galaxies, and what have researchers learned so far? aasnova.org/2025/08/29/a... 🔭🧪

All Alone With No AGN to Call Home? New Results for Little Red Dots

Small in size and glowing red, little red dots have been confusing astronomers since their discovery by JWST. What are the origins of these distant galaxies, and what have researchers learned so far?

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 27

Rings and gaps in TWA 7’s debris disk suggested a planet might be lurking nearby. JWST observations may have revealed the hidden world. aasnova.org/2025/08/27/a... 🔭🧪

A Dusty Disk Points to a Potential Planet

Rings and gaps in TWA 7's debris disk suggested a planet might be lurking nearby. JWST observations may have revealed the hidden world.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 25

William Smith reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how we might be able to observe gravitational wave signals from intermediate-mass black holes in binary systems with stellar-mass black holes. aasnova.org/2025/08/25/f... 🔭

From Globs to Gravitational Waves: A Simulated Cosmic Choreography

Astrobites reports on how we might be able to observe gravitational wave signals from intermediate-mass black holes in binary systems with stellar-mass black holes.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 15

An incredible beacon from the first billion years of the universe, Earendel has been touted as the most distant single star ever seen — but it might not be a single star at all. aasnova.org/2025/08/15/e... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 🔭🧪

Examining Earendel: Is the Most Distant Lensed Star Actually a Cluster?

An incredible beacon from the first billion years of the universe, Earendel has been touted as the most distant single star ever seen — but it might not be a single star at all.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 13

Chloe Klare reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on the three galactic suspects in the case of an ultra-high-energy neutrino. aasnova.org/2025/08/13/u... 🔭

Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Emission on the Extragalactic Express: A Mystery

Astrobites reports on the three galactic suspects in the case of an ultra-high-energy neutrino.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 11

JWST provides new evidence that one of our nearest neighbor stars, Alpha Centauri A, might host a giant planet in its habitable zone. aasnova.org/2025/08/11/p... @caltech.edu #exoplanets 🔭🧪

Potential Discovery of a World Next Door

JWST provides new evidence that one of our nearest neighbor stars, Alpha Centauri A, might host a giant planet in its habitable zone.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 8

When a supermassive black hole captures a significantly smaller object, the interaction could produce gravitational waves that have not yet been detected. A new study explores such events and how future gravitational wave detectors may be able to feel them for years to come. 🧪🔭

Supermassive Black Holes and Stripped Subgiants: Significant Signals for Future Gravitational Wave Detectors

When a supermassive black hole captures a significantly smaller object, the interaction could produce gravitational waves that have not yet been detected. A new study explores such events and how futu...

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 6

The “little red dot” CAPERS-LRD-z9 is the most distant object to show the characteristic broad emission lines of fast-moving gas around a black hole. aasnova.org/2025/08/06/d... 🔭🧪

Distant Little Red Dot Hosts a Huge (and Growing) Black Hole

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 5

Kaz Gary reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on a warm, rocky exoplanet and what might be hidden beneath its atmosphere. aasnova.org/2025/08/05/w... 🔭

What’s Going On Inside GJ 486b?

Astrobites reports on a warm, rocky exoplanet and what might be hidden beneath its atmosphere.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Aug 4

New observations from the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) show the multilayered winds of NGC 4151 in a whole new light. aasnova.org/2025/08/04/b... @umich.edu 🔭🧪

Blown Away by the Winds of NGC 4151

New observations from the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) show the multilayered winds of NGC 4151 in a whole new light.

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