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September 2008
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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 How astronomers cracked the Einstein code By
Adam Frank Scientists are colliding virtual black holes to put relativity to the final test. |
pg. 22 |
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Daniel Pendick Numerical relativity researcher Manuela Campanelli describes the culminating moments of the merger of two black holes. |
Europe's space revolution By
Bruce Dorminey Two simultaneous European space missions will explore the cosmic background radiation and the structure that evolved from it. |
pg. 28 |
The coming solar superstorm By
Sten Odenwald In 1859, the Sun unleashed its biggest storm in 450 years. We're more vulnerable than ever to its next blast. |
pg. 34 |
See two movies of the Sun from the Hinode observatory. |
Illustrated: Meteors rock Phobos By
Richard Talcott The Red Planet's largest moon bears scars from eons of major impacts. |
pg. 48 |
NASA's Phoenix digs Mars By
Bruce Moomaw The Red Planet's newest spacecraft delves beneath the surface in search of ice. |
pg. 50 |
Explore the southern Milky Way's dark clouds By
Craig Crossen, Gerlad Rhemann Dusty webs sprawling across the galaxy's richest star fields make for must-see observing. |
pg. 54 |
Discover 10 top Milky Way delights By
Michael E. Bakich From Sagittarius to Cassiopeia, late summer offers a lot to observe. |
pg. 60 |
Easy imaging with the DSI III By
Mike D. Reynolds Meade's Deep Sky Imager III offers the options of more expensive CCD cameras. |
pg. 64 |
Departments This month in Astronomy Letters Web talk Bob Berman's strange universe Stephen James O'Meara's secret sky Naked-eye denizens of the galactic deep |
Glenn Chaple's observing basics A sure bet for observing fun |
Phil Harrington's binocular universe The Cygnus Arm flexes its muscle |
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Phil Harrington X Cygni and a handful of the Swan's residents provide additional challenges for September binocular observers. |
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