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Enhanced Tracking of Manuscript Status Now Available
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AAS Journals Welcome New Scientific Editors
We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kat Volk and Dr. Jennifer Hanley as scientific editors for the Planetary Science Journal (PSJ). Volk, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, brings expertise in small bodies within our solar system, such as comets, trans-Neptunian objects, and the distant, icy…
Assigning DOIs to data published in the journals
Starting in 2025, we are further enhancing the digital data published in the AAS Journals by giving each contributed dataset or online-only figure a unique digital object identifier (DOI). Improving data publication in the journals For over twenty-five years, authors have provided digital data with their AAS journal publications.…
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Welcome and Farewell to Our AAS Media Fellows
We're excited to welcome Alexia Kubas and Lucas Brown to the team as AAS Media Fellows for 2026–2027!
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Breaking the Ice: Origins of Carbon Oxides on Uranian Moons
A recent study has used spectroscopy from JWST to decipher the source of carbon oxides on the four largest moons of Uranus.
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When Bright Spots Go Dark
New modeling tests a common assumption that's important for interpreting exoplanet spectra: that stars of all spectral types exhibit bright magnetized regions called faculae.
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Thermal Electrons Can Explain the Mysterious Radio Behavior of a Tidal Disruption Event
Astrobites reports on how synchrotron emission from thermal electrons could help to explain the behavior of certain tidal disruption events.
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