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Sky & Telescope November 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES Touchdown on the Red Planet Curiosity's spectacular landing paves the way for new discoveries about Mars's ability to support life.By Emily Lakdawalla From Handel to Hydra: Naming Planets, Moons & Craters "Naming a thing is man's nearest approach to creating it." -- Percival LowellBy Rosaly Lopes The Evolving…
Mapping Eclipses
In the November issue of Sky & Telescope, Michael Zeiler writes about the history of eclipse maps. Even as long ago as 1715, astronomer Edmond Halley was able to calculate an eclipse map that was accurate to within 3 km. Now Michael Zeiler's eclipse maps have unprecedented accuracy, and the…
Sky & Telescope October 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES A Glorious Transit of Venus Millions of people saw June's transit of Venus, but for research astronomers, it was a golden opportunity to advance science.By Jay M. Pasachoff The Great Galactic Travelers New observations suggest that the Magellanic Clouds - for decades considered satellites of the Milky Way…
Making the Magellanic Clouds
Milky Way and its two dwarf neighbors, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, shine in a dark night sky. The brief interloper Comet Lovejoy graces the image on its way out of the solar system.S&T Photo Gallery: Luis Argerich Our Milky Way Galaxy has more than a dozen known satellite…
Shooting the Transit of Venus
The cover story of S&T's October issue follows the scientists who observed the historic transit of Venus and their efforts to leave a complete record for future observers of Venus's next transit in 2117. Author Jay Pasachoff led a team that traveled to the Haleakala summit in Hawaii to capture…
Sky & Telescope September 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES New Meteor Showers Discovered As Earth circles the Sun, it crosses a rich, changing tangle of meteoroid streams. Help us map them with amateur video.By Peter Jenniskens Nature's Wrath The solar system's wild weather can make Earth's extremes seem serene.By David Baker & Todd Ratcliff Protoplanet Close-up Dawn…
Vesta Close-Ups
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft detail the surface of Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in our solar system and a subject of discussion in the September issue of Sky & Telescope. And if you scroll all the way down, you're in for a treat! For more information, visit NASA's homepage…
Sky & Telescope August 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES Pictures of a Baby Solar System Astronomers have found a young version of the Sun surrounded by a solar system analog in the making.By Thayne M. Currie & Carol A. Grady Houston, We Have a Problem Sometimes the most famous words are those never spoken.By Dave English Solve…
The Herschel Project
“Uncle Rod” chats with S&T editor in chief Robert Naeye about how he conducted the Herschel Project and whether it’s possible for experienced amateurs to “run out” of deep-sky objects to observe.
Planet Storms Alive and Kickin'
Watch and listen to storms across the solar system as part of our Beyond the Printed Page content for the September 2012 issue.
Four occultations in September 2012
Four unusual occultations were described in the September 2012 issue of Sky & Telescope, page 51. Here are links to the promised maps and further information: • The naked-eye star Alpha2 Librae, magnitude 2.7, will be occulted for up to 2.6 seconds by the faint asteroid 363 Padua on September…
More on Seagrave Observatory and its restored Clark refractor
As a supplement to the August 2012 Sky & Telescope, here are many more photos and more information on Seagrave Memorial Observatory in Rhode Island and its newly restored 8-inch Clark refractor.
Sky & Telescope July 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES Misfit Stars Half planet, half star, newly discovered brown dwarfs are only as warm as a summer's day on Earth, defying definition even as they tempt astronomers with new insights.By Kristina Grifantini Universe on Fast Forward Supercomputer modeling is transforming cosmology from an observational science into an experimental…
The Apollo Astronauts: In Their Own Words
Hear what the astronauts really said during the Apollo missions.
Sky & Telescope June 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES Seeing the Moon Like Never Before NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals spectacular landforms on our deceptively familiar satellite.By Jim Bell Alan Hale and His 500 Comets Along the way to achieving his goal of viewing 500 comet apparitions, this New Mexico astronomer discovered one of the 20th century's…
Titanic Gallery
Print pages can only fit so much: scroll through a gallery of selected Titanic drawings and iceberg photos.
Sky & Telescope May 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES Saturn's Raging Superstorm A mysterious Great White Spot erupted on Saturn in late 2010, the sixth such storm in recorded history.By Agustín Sánchez-Lavega Stars Above, Earth Below: Astronomy in National Parks Renowned for their terrestrial beauty, U.S. national parks are among the best places to revel in the…
Asteroid Occultations in April 2012
Here are the info and links promised in the May Sky & Telescope page 53.
The Quest for Totality
Check out footage from the Patagonia and Antarctic total solar eclipses described in July's issue of S&T!
Interview with Tyler Nordgren
Listen as Tyler Nordgren recounts his experiences as an astronomer in national parks.
