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The August 2024 issue of Astronomy & Geophysics covers a wide range of topics in astronomy. It includes information about the upcoming Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture, which will discuss the use of artificial intelligence in finding exploding stars and black holes. The winners of the 2023 RAS Thesis Prize are also announced, and details about National Astronomy Week in 2025 are provided. The issue features scientific discoveries such as the most distant known galaxy, the cause of water loss on Venus, evidence of space weathering on asteroid Ryugu, and the presence of liquid rock droplet clouds on exoplanet WASP-43b. Other topics covered include sunspots, Pluto's heart-shaped feature, alternative eclipse observation methods, quasar mergers, planet-forming disks, gas outflows in galaxies, supermassive black hole growth, early galaxy mergers, magnetar bursts, the Sun's magnetic field formation, a vent near the Milky Way's black hole, and a new model explaining phosphorus abundance. A new Earth-sized exoplanet called SPECULOOS-3 b has been discovered orbiting a nearby ultra-cool dwarf star, and researchers found that primordial inhomogeneities in molecular clouds can create chemical differences in stars with the same origin. Another study suggests that massive stars can collapse into black holes without becoming supernovae. [Extracted from the article] |
