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Cosmic Collisions Is a Smash Hit

From the opening words to the closing credits, the new show Cosmic Collisions premiering this week at New York City's Hayden Planetarium is truly a blockbuster.

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Solar Cycle Solved?

Researchers tracking material deep inside the Sun think that they have solved the mystery of the 11-year sunspot cycle — and they they can predict the next cycles' strength.

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Dust Storms on Mars

Just as it's swinging close by Earth, Mars has spawned widenings dust storms visible in amateur telescopes.

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Astro News Briefs: September 26 – October 2

Mars Express mission extended and a new comet for Caroline Herschel?

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Table Mountain Star Party: 25 Years and Going Strong

Some 700 amateur astronomers from around the world enjoyed a solid week of blue-sky days and starlight nights at this year's Table Mountain Star Party.

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Prospecting for Martian Ice

Scientists combined several images from Mars Express to create this 3-dimensional image of a 35-kilometer-wide (22-mile-wide) unnamed crater in the far northern hemisphere. A patch of water ice sits on the crater floor. The colors are very close to natural, but the vertical relief is exaggerated three times. Due to…

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Astronomy Tours

Sky & Telescope and its partner, TravelQuest International, offer astronomy-themed tours to exciting destinations worldwide.

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Saturn Lights

Strange aurora patterns viewed on Saturn are unlike anything ever seen in the solar system.

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Yerkes On the Block

The University of Chicago soon may sell Yerkes Observatory and its surrounding acreage.

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This Is a Quiet Sun?

A series of major solar flares from sunspot 696 has kept geomagnetic activity near or above "storm" level ever since November 7th.

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More Science Findings From Cassini

Scientists at the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, were treated to a slew of results from the Cassini spacecraft.

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Stardate 2004: "Simply the Best"

On January 23–26 New Zealand's Phoenix Astronomical Society held its 16th annual Stardate star party.

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Footprint of a Magnetic Exoplanet

Astronomers have found the first extrasolar planet with a magnetic field.

Sun on November 3, 2003

Celestial News & Events

More Solar Blasts

Two large sunspot groups, currently disappearing around the western limb of the Sun, spawned another round of powerful flares. The result could be one more fine display of the aurora.

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Astro News Briefs: November 17–23

Put your name on a comet, sunspots return, and more....

Solar System

Another Martian Dust Storm

Less than one month after a localized dust storm appeared on the Martian surface, another dust cloud has spring up.

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Mars's Dazzling Sky Show

Late in August the planet Mars passes closer to Earth than it has been in nearly 60,000 years — and the red planet has become a fiery yellow-orange beacon in the evening sky.

On the Road with David Levy

Starfest 2003: Dark Skies and Aliens

Solar observing was the order of the day at Starfest. The gathering had record attendance this year and ranks as the largest star party in Canada.Courtesy Andreas Gada and Tony Ward. If you've never been in to a star party, I strongly recommend that you attend one. Even if it's…

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Two Fine Western Star Parties

Summer star-party season is in high gear. Among the events held on the weekend of July's dark of the Moon were two premier annual gatherings — one in Washington State and another in British Columbia, Canada.

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