As part of the AAVSO's Centennial Celebration the editors of the JAAVSO invited experts in the field to contribute a series of review articles to help our readership better understand the current state of astronomy and astrophysics as we head into the next century of the AAVSO's existence. We will be highlighting a number of these articles here. The review series was published in JAAVSO volume 40, number 1.
The next featured highlight is a review of the state of our knowledge of novae, by Janet Mattei Fellow Ulisse Munari of the National Institute of Astrophysics, Astronomical Observatory of Padova.