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April 2000 |
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Features Bursting the Bubbles By
Adam Frank Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets - they are death shrouds for sunlike stars. Now astronomers are learning how these intricate, colorful gas clouds form. |
pg. 38 |
Galileo's Daughter By
Dava Sobel Letters written to the great astronomer by his daughter - a nun in the Roman Catholic Church - help put his life and times into perspective. |
pg. 46 |
The Seeker Author, filmmaker, and ASTRONOMY editorial advisory board member Timothy Ferris is now focusing his attention on the search for extraterrestrial life. |
pg. 52 |
Hunting for the Strangest Matter By
Steve Nadis Strange seems an appropriate word to describe this exotic form of matter, which physicists think could dominate some pulsars. |
pg. 56 |
Star Struck By
David J. Eicher Beautiful portraits of the constellations can be yours - if you know the right technique. |
pg. 72 |
Paired Vixens By
Phil Harrington These aren't your father's binoculars: Orion-Vixen has taken two 4.9-inch refractors and mounted them to form a pair of giant binoculars that zoom from 25x to 75x. |
pg. 78 |
In Cyber Color By
Gregory Terrance It's easier than you might think to take a CCD camera that records only in black and white and have it churn out spectacular sky shots. |
pg. 84 |
Into the Realm of the Galaxies By
Phil Harrington Thousands of bright galaxies await backyard observers in spring's preeminent deep-sky target. |
pg. 90 |
Departments Behind the Scenes Brown Dwarfs Renamed and More Talking Back AstroNews - White Dwarfs by the Trillions?
- Light of a Distant Planet
- The Great Attractor Revealed
- A Hubble Makeover
- Astronomers Detect Galaxies' Hidden
Masses
- Galileo Captures a Big Eruption on Io
- Birth of Uranus and Neptune Sky Show The first week of April sees a spectacular evening grouping as the moon joins Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Star Stuff Products
- Electrim CCDs
- The Astronomical Calendar 2000
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- Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life And
Truth in a Very Large Universe
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