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Sky & Telescope Errata: 2014
This article lists all known errors in issues of Sky & Telescope for 2014.
Inside the February 2014 Issue
FEATURED ARTICLES Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Discoveries on this planetary frontier reveal many fantastical worlds, so why do we think the solar system has gotten smaller? By Emily Lakdawalla Perseus to Puppis and Beyond The winter Milky Way is faint and vague, but it’s adorned with some of the…
Great Red Spot Transit Table Sept - Dec 2014
Transit times for Jupiter's Great Red Spot are listed through December 2014.
Quasar Hunting
The March 2014 issue of Sky & Telescope features an article by Bob Cava, who hunts for quasars in light-polluted New Jersey with his 10- and 16-inch telescopes. As Cava discovered, quasar hunting requires considerable skill with astronomical databases and online tools. This web supplement describes some useful resources and…
Inside the January 2014 Issue
FEATURED ARTICLES The Frozen Neutrino Catcher A gargantuan observatory hidden beneath a kilometer of ice looks for signals from some of the universe's speediest particles. By Govert Schilling Tuning in to Radio Jupiters The race is on to find the first radio waves from a world beyond our solar system.…
The Radio Jove Project: Listening in on Jupiter
The January 2014 issue of Sky & Telescope features Yvette Cendes’s article on radio emission from Jupiter — and the possibility that we might soon hear similar radio signals from planets beyond our solar system. Auroral activity lights up Jupiter's poles in the ultraviolet. The permanent auroras are often accompanied…
Jupiter Watchers
This stunning movie of Jupiter contains tens of thousands of frames as seen through a 14-inch telescope.Damian Peach The cover story of S&T's January 2014 issue features the significant role amateur astronomers have played in planetary science, and especially the study of Jupiter, over the past decade. Amateurs have monitored…
Inside the December 2013 Issue
FEATURED ARTICLES Mysterious Travelers Humans have been seeing comets for millennia, but we still have a lot more questions than answers. By David Jewitt The Comet ISON Story With the most dramatic portion of Comet ISON's apparition almost upon us, questions remain about what we'll see. By John E. Bortle…
Sky & Telescope November 2013
FEATURED ARTICLES The Black Widows A mysterious group of stellar corpses resurrect themselves by sucking life from their companion stars.By Roger W. Romani The Most Powerful Telescope Ever Built ALMA's cutting-edge technology promises to unveil our cosmic origins.By Monica Young How Often Do Bright Comets Appear? With Comet ISON approaching,…
Sky & Telescope October 2013
FEATURED ARTICLES The Great Supernova Race In the efforts to discover exploding stars, professionals have taken the lead, but amateurs have managed to stay in the game.By Robert Zimmerman Back to the Big Bang A faint signal hidden in the universe's earliest light might reveal what happened in the first…
Join the Great Supernova Race
Supernova 1987A exploded just 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, captured here in a Hubble Space Telescope image.NASA / ESA / K. France / P. Challis / R. Kirshner In the cover story of the October 2013 issue of Sky & Telescope, author Bob Zimmerman tells the story…
Sky & Telescope September 2013
FEATURED ARTICLES The History of Water on Mars How many times has NASA discovered water on Mars? We set the record straight.By Emily Lakdawalla Solving the Quasar Puzzle Fifty years ago, recently discovered "radio stars" began revealing their exotic secrets.By Bradley Peterson Deciphering Starlight In Europe, many amateurs are engaging…
Water on Mars
How many times has NASA discovered water on Mars? For the answer, look in the September 2013 issue, where author Emily Lakdawalla sets the record straight. Orbiters and landers have returned so many beautiful high-res images, we couldn't include them all in the article. To see more of the photographic…
Resources for Amateur Spectroscopy
Check out these links to learn more about conducting spectroscopy with amateur telescopes.
Current B-mode Projects
More information about the projects searching for evidence of the universe's inflation, mentioned in our October 2013 issue.
Sky & Telescope August 2013
FEATURED ARTICLES Exoplanets Everywhere A leading researcher answers the most pressing questions about our galaxy's enormous population of planets.By Sara Seager The Women Who Created Modern Astronomy Three Harvard "computers" established our current understanding of the stars.By John Dvorak The New Social Face of Astronomy Join the revolution that's forging…
Exoplanets: The Next Frontier
Sara Seager sits down with S&T's Editor in Chief Robert Naeye to talk about the future of exoplanet studies and the exotic worlds we might find.
Sky & Telescope July 2013
FEATURED ARTICLES Is Plate Tectonics Necessary for Sentient Life? Water, atmosphere, and pleasant temperatures are nice, but active geology could make or break a planet's habitability.By Bruce Dorminey Observing the Milky Way, Part I: Sagittarius & Scorpius Binoculars are the ideal tool for exploring the galaxy we call home.By Craig…
NEAF 2013 Videos Are Here!
Check out our videos from the 22nd annual Northeast Astronomy Forum, one of the world's largest telescope shows.
Sky & Telescope June 2013
FEATURED ARTICLES Star-Shredding Black Holes Dormant black holes turn into ravenous beasts when renegade stars wake them from their slumber.By Suvi Gezari The Chelyabinsk Super-Meteor Scientists are piecing together the story of the largest asteroid impact with Earth since 1908.By Daniel D. Durda The Story of Einstein's Telescope A telescope…
