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Sky & Telescope September 2010
FEATURED ARTICLES The Mysterious Lady on the Moon Is the Moon Maiden on Cassini's famous 1679 Moon map an astronomer's secret declaration of love?By Françoise Launay and William Sheehan Binocular Showpieces for Light-Polluted Skies Over a bright city or suburb, some sky sights shine through better than others.By Hugh Bartlett…
More Amazing HiRISE Views of Mars
We couldn't fit enough eye-popping images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in one Sky & Telescope article, so here are more great images to captivate you.
Sky & Telescope August 2010
FEATURED ARTICLES Einstein's Ultimate Laboratory A recently discovered binary pulsar gives scientists the most rigorous test yet of general relativity.By Michael Kramer Glimpses of an Evolving Planet A stroll through Earth's past gives astronomers vital clues to what terrestrial-sized exoplanets might look like.By Jeff Hecht In Perfect Focus Modern imaging…
Earth's Past and the Search for Habitable Planets
Ever since Galileo first turned his telescope to the night sky, people have dreamed of discovering life on other planets besides our own. For centuries, very little progress was made. In the mid-twentieth century, after the canals on Mars had proved to be illusions, extraterrestrial life seemed more remote than…
Sky & Telescope July 2010
FEATURED ARTICLES Lessons from Solar Twins The Sun's closest stellar analogs hold clues to our own star's past and future.By Jeffrey Hall Deep-Sky Discovery An amateur astronomer unearths a new planetary nebula, hinting that more hidden jewels are lurking out there.By Mike Simmons and Dave Jurasevitch A New Astroscanner One…
Sky & Telescope June 2010
FEATURED ARTICLES Flowers of the Night Sky Here's a guide to summer's best and most representative planetary nebulae.By Ted Forte Hubble's Greatest Scientific Achievements A leading astrophysicist reflects on 20 years of great discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope.By Mario Livio Celestron Turns 50 The entrepreneurial spirit of one amateur…
Great Red Spot Transit Table 2010-2011
Transit times for Jupiter's Great Red Spot are listed through February 2011.
Jeff Hall Talks about Solar Twins
Jeff Hall talks about the search for sunlike stars and what they can tell us about our own Sun.
Sky & Telescope May 2010
FEATURED ARTICLES Amateurs Catch a Crucial Nova Two dedicated backyard astronomers alerted professional telescopes worldwide and in space to U Scorpii's eruption.By Mike Simonsen and Alan MacRobert Saving the Night Sky A new mindset and new technology are poised to slow, and perhaps reverse, this bane of astronomy.By J. Kelly…
Sky & Telescope April 2010
FEATURED ARTICLES Imagining Other Worlds Space artists help us visualize unseen worlds.By Ker Than Hanging in the Balance There's a small but non-zero chance that our solar system will go haywire some time in the next few billion yearsBy Greg Laughlin The Universal Jet Set A wide variety of objects…
Sky & Telescope March 2010
FEATURED ARTICLES Shedding Light on Dark Stars Bizarre stars powered by dark matter may have been the first to appear after the Big Bang.By Ker Than What Else Is Out There? Planets and other large objects could be lurking far beyond Neptune.By David Jewitt Digitizing History Amateurs help scan a…
Sky & Telescope February 2010
FEATURED ARTICLES NASA Finds Lunar Water NASA's "crash and splash" gambit dredged up water from a lunar crater.By J. Kelly Beatty High-Def Lunar Landscapes Japan's Kaguya spacecraft has recorded some of the most dramatic lunar images ever seen.By Motomaro Shirao Lunar Photography with AviStack A powerful freeware program takes your…
Sky & Telescope January 2010
FEATURED ARTICLES NASA Sets Its Sights on the Sun The Solar Dynamics Observatory will reveal new details about the Sun's powerful magnetic storms.By Laura Layton and Dean Pesnell Finding the First Galaxies Hubble has imaged the most distant galaxies yet. But to see the first galaxies, astronomers need to go…
Spacecraft Imaging for Amateurs: Hyperlink Supplement
An international community of space enthusiasts has become adept at reinterpreting images from planetary spacecraft.
Sky & Telescope December 2009
FEATURED ARTICLES Amateur Exoplanets Amateur data was essential to the discovery of two new extrasolar planets.By Robert Naeye A New Infrared Sky NASA is about to launch its WISE mission to survey the sky at wavelengths poorly covered to now.By Peter Eisenhardt and Ned Wright Not Much Eyesight, Plenty of…
Voices from Educational Planetariums
Directors of small planetariums discuss some of the major issues facing their institutions.
Sky & Telescope November 2009
FEATURED ARTICLES The Great 2012 Scare The world won't end on December 21, 2012. Here's what to tell anybody who's worried that it might.By E. C. Krupp Starscape Astrophotography It takes planning, research, and sometime luck to capture memorable skyscapes.By Jerry Lodriguss Celestron's CGE Pro Mount The new CGE Pro…
Sky & Telescope October 2009
FEATURED ARTICLES Prelude to Disaster In 2006 RS Ophiuchi produced a powerful nova eruption. However, a much bigger explosion may be coming soon.By Sumner Starrfield, Mike Bode, & Tim O'Brien The New Habitable Zones Microbes could thrive in all sorts of "impossible" places on other worlds.By Chris Impey Sky-Watcher's Newest…
Sky & Telescope September 2009
FEATURED ARTICLES Smashing the Distance Record An exploding star establishes a new benchmark for most-distant known object in the universe.By Edo Berger Ice Age Impact Scientists are debating whether a comet triggered the extinction of the large North American mammals.By Ivan Semeniuk The Cosmologist Left Behind Edwin Hubble usually gets…
Great Red Spot Transit Table 2009
Transit times for Jupiter's Great Red Spot are listed through the end of 2009.
