Magazine

Deep-Sky Objects

Dusty veil

The Sun

When the Sun produces a coronal mass ejection, is the blast of sufficient force to alter our star’s path through the cosmos? Do these eruptions significantly perturb our solar system?

Deep-Sky Objects

The Perek-Kohoutek catalog

Solar System

The whispering bolide

Science

How do scientists know that the particles revealed after a proton or lead ion collision are different from each other, such as quarks and muons, and not just smaller pieces of protons or lead ions? (If I were to smash two lead bullets together, they would break into smaller pieces, but they would still be lead.)

Observing

Travel to the stars

Human Spaceflight, Robotic Spaceflight, The Moon

Movements to the Moon

Solar System

Don’t believe everything you hear

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System

A trio of evening planets

Astrophotography

Filtered solar views

Exoplanets, Planets

Rare rainbow phenomena

Stars

Is it possible for a quark star to exist?