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November 2007
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The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each monthly issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color photography, complete sky coverage, spot-on observing tips, informative telescope reviews, and much more! All this in an easy-to-understand, user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level. |
Features The secret lives of black holes By
Steve Nadis A black hole's spin may power gamma-ray bursts and galactic jets. But its rotation has been hard to measure - until now. |
pg. 30 |
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Francis Reddy See what astronomers are talking about with these animations of black holes. |
Earth of the outer solar system By
Michael Carroll Each Cassini flyby of Titan fills in the details of this frostbitten saturnian moon shaped by forces identical to those that sculpted Earth's surface. |
pg. 34 |
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Daniel Pendick Images from orbit highlight striking similarities between Earth and Titan. |
The priest, the universe, and the Big Bang By
Yaël Nazé A Belgian priest's extraordinary insights anticipated modern cosmology's most fundamental ideas. |
pg. 40 |
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Francis Reddy The Belgian priest loved crunching numbers, and he embraced technology that helped him do it. |
Illustrated: Making sense of galaxies By
Francis Reddy, Kellie Jaeger Astronomers' efforts to explain galaxy types brought them from a tuning fork to a lemon. |
pg. 54 |
How to observe variable stars By
Michael E. Bakich If your observing list doesn't contain variable stars, here's an easy guide to some of the finest. |
pg. 56 |
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Michael E. Bakich Watch these stars' brightnesses change before your very eyes. |
Who will save us from a killer asteroid? By
Robert Reeves Meet astronomers on the front lines of protecting Earth. |
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Daniel Pendick Researchers may have discovered a previously unknown scar from the 1908 Tunguska meteor explosion: a deep crater lake. |
Astrolight reflectors offer quality optics By
Phil Harrington Parks Optical's 6- and 8-inch Newtonian reflectors deliver top-notch optics at a reasonable price. |
pg. 70 |
Is LASIK for you? By
Daniel Pendick Like any surgery, laser vision correction has pros and cons - especially for observers. |
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Daniel Pendick Don't be reluctant to "interview" your doctor before you have LASIK or other vision-correction procedures. |
Departments This month in Astronomy Songs from black holes Letters Bob Berman's strange universe Glenn Chaple's observing basics Web extra: Spy a solar system wanderer |
Phil Harrington's binocular universe Web extra: The sky's Triangle |
Stephen James O'Meara's secret sky Web extra: Dancing to a deaf wind |
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