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Writing a good scientific paper is a challenging task that benefits from training and practice. In this second Perspective in a short series, the authors share their wisdom on the process of writing a manuscript, from the most appropriate content for each section to the language to use.
Writing a good scientific paper is a challenging task that becomes easier with training and practice. Here the authors share their wisdom on useful preparations to make before starting to write, and a companion Perspective provides advice on the actual writing process.
Light pollution is a growing problem affecting the night sky. This Review takes a comprehensive look at the factors contributing to elevated brightness at night, the measurement techniques and the ongoing assessment of sky quality.
Surface-energy effects, such as the Kelvin effect, that regulate the formation of ice determine the observed abundance, distribution and evolution of CO in protoplanetary disks.
The use of sound to represent astronomical data complements visual analysis tools and makes astronomy more accessible. This Perspective presents a growing number of projects with increasing applications in research, education and outreach across astronomy.
The precise location of megamaser emission regions in galactic accretion disks has been challenging to pinpoint. Now with interferometric observations leveraging baselines larger than the Earth’s diameter, the missing information is getting closer and closer.
Observations have mapped the distribution of gas velocities in a circumstellar disk wind for the first time. The high spatial resolution required for these observations is achieved by measuring the maser emission of water molecules. These findings validate theoretical predictions from the 1980s and can be replicated by modern numerical models.
A number of recent laboratory studies—summarized in this Review—have improved our understanding of the origin of presolar grains, with at least a quarter of presolar grains now being understood to originate in supernovae and their progenitors.
This review summarizes our understanding of early-type dwarfs, which are the end-points of the evolution of low-mass galaxies. Their primeval stellar populations provide a unique laboratory for studying the physical conditions on small scales at epochs beyond z = 2.
A unified theory of particle transport by wind can explain the observations of aeolian features, like dunes, across the Solar System rocky bodies with atmospheres.
The internal and external pressure of interstellar medium clouds were measured by modelling of Atacama Large Millimeter Array and Very Large Telescope data. Pressure gradients indicated that both cloud collapse and expansion are possible in jet-driven outflows from black holes, potentially altering the star formation rate of their galaxies.
Conflicting results in measurements of the global spectrum of the hydrogen 21-cm line may indicate that there are large systematic errors. A different experimental approach to reach the redshifted signal from cosmic dawn assesses possible systematic errors together with the signal.
Certain types of strongly star-forming galaxies have long been thought to lie outside the usual trends in metal abundances followed by other galaxies. A study now reveals the significant effect of dust on observations, bringing these galaxies back into line with models.
Shortly after the James Webb Space Telescope launched into space, the IR 2022 conference convened to identify and explore synergies between ground-based and space-based infrared observations.
Ultraviolet-detected Fermi bubble clouds have metallicities that are consistent with the clouds having two origins: the Milky Way disk and halo. This result adds complexity to the previously accepted picture that these clouds could only be launched from the disk of the Milky Way into the bubbles.
Although the Earth is depleted in volatile components relative to its potential chondritic precursors, the isotopic compositions of these elements are similar in Earth and chondrites. A theory to explain these observations suggests that rocky material that formed at various temperatures, locations and times in the protoplanetary disk collected to make Earth.
