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May 2009 |
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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 the telescope remade the universe By
Raymond Shubinski Within half a century of its invention in 1608, the telescope had transformed our view of the cosmos and Earth's place in it. |
pg. 30 |
The telescope's 400-year revolution By
Liz Kruesi Early telescopes were about 1 inch wide; today's span some 33 feet. Here's how this crucial tool moved forward. |
pg. 36 |
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Liz Kruesi Compare the optics of the first three telescope designs. |
Scoping out the great discoveries By
Richard Talcott From Jupiter's moons to dark energy, scientists have used the telescope to make many extraordinary discoveries. |
pg. 41 |
Experience Galileo's Italy By
William Sheehan Walk in Galileo's footsteps in Rome, Florence, and other haunts of the great astronomer. |
pg. 56 |
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Daniel Pendick The author of Experience Galileo's Italy explains his appreciations for the great astronomer's life and work. |
Explore the Great Bear's galaxies By
Steve Coe Break out your medium-size telescope and search Ursa Major's extragalactic treasures. |
pg. 64 |
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Michael E. Bakich Follow along for a night of galaxy hunting from Animas, New Mexico. |
25 top telescopes for starry nights By
Phil Harrington Set up one of these high-quality instruments, and you'll be in observing heaven. |
pg. 68 |
Departments This Month in Astronomy Astro Confidential Beautiful Universe Letters Bob Berman's Strange Universe Stephen James O'Meara's Secret Sky Astro News The Sky this Month Ask Astro Glenn Chaple's Observing Basics Re-create a Galilean scope |
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