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The Astrophysical Journal (abbreviated to ApJ or Astrophys. J.) is a scientific journal covering astronomy and astrophysics. It was founded in 1895 by the American astronomers George Ellery Hale and James E. Keeler. As of October 2006 it published three 500-page issues per month.

Since 1953, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (often abbreviated to ApJS) has been published in conjunction with The Astrophysical Journal. It aims to supplement the material in the Journal. As of October 2006 it published six volumes per year, with two 280-page issues per volume. The journal and the supplement series were both published by the University of Chicago Press for the American Astronomical Society. In January 2009 publication was transferred to Institute of Physics Publishing, following the move of the society's Astronomical Journal in 2008. The reason for the changes were given by the Society as the increasing financial demands of the Press.

The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL) is Part 2 of The Astrophysical Journal — a peer-reviewed express scientific journal.

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Solar Scientists Use 'Magnetic Mirror Effect' to Reproduce IBEX Observation

Solar Scientists Use 'Magnetic Mirror Effect' to Reproduce IBEX Observation

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission scientists released the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system's edge in particles, solar physicists have been busy ...


Caltech scientists discover fog on Titan

Scientists discover fog on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. ...


Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 2

An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to the sun.


Monster Waves on the Sun are Real

Monster Waves on the Sun are Real (w/ Video)

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created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 2

Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft are telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar ...


Mystery of the Solar Tsunami -- Solved

Mystery of the Solar Tsunami -- Solved (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as ...


Dirty stars make good solar system hosts (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Some stars are lonely behemoths, with no surrounding planets or asteroids, while others sport a skirt of attendant planetary bodies. New research published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explains why the co ...


Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary Material

How to Make a Planet: Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary Material

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. The observations, ...


First black holes born starving

First black holes born starving (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 13

The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly, according to recent supercomputer simulations carried out by astrophysicists ...


Milky Way galaxy

Discovery poses challenge to galaxy formation theories

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created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 30

A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest that they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter to the widely-held belief ...


Unexpected source of gamma rays discovered

Unexpected source of gamma rays discovered

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created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 1

An international team of astrophysicists, involving several research groups in Spain, has discovered a source of very high energy gamma rays in the region of the distant galaxies 3C 66A and 3C 66B. This new ...


Astronomers Discover Link Between Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation

Astronomers Discover Link Between Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation

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created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of astronomers from Texas and Germany have used a telescope at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory together with Hubble Space Telescope and many other telescopes ...


Verdict: Supermassive black holes not guilty of shutting down star formation

Verdict: Supermassive black holes not guilty of shutting down star formation

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created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black ...