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Monday, May 11, 2015

Astronomy Magazine

TONIGHT'S SKY
  
  
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May 15: Uranus is 0.2° north of the Moon (occultation)
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Huge halo

The halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda Galaxy is about six times larger and 1,000 times more massive than previously measured

Hubble at 25

How the space telescope changed the cosmos

New podcast episode!

Avi Loeb: From cosmic origins to our galaxy’s fate
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Apollo exclusive 

An in-depth interview, including video footage, with astronaut Jim Lovell on his experiences with Apollo 8 and Apollo 13

Ch-ch-changes

First evidence of variable conditions on a super-Earth

Uwingu Mars

Name a crater ... make an impact!
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Ends July 24, 2015

Solar warmth

Strong evidence for coronal heating by nanoflares
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Indonesian Islands Eclipse

Explore Bali and witness a total solar eclipse in March 2016 with Astronomymagazine and TravelQuest International

Asteroid Day

The truth about the impact threat facing Earth

Death cries

NuSTAR captures possible “screams” from zombie stars
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Join Astronomy's Aurora Adventure

Experience a once-in-a-lifetime northern lights tour with Astronomy magazine and TravelQuest International

Take the Universe with You!

Thanks for everything

MESSENGER's Mercury mission is finally complete

New Eicher book will deliver state of the cosmos message 

Last year, I spent much of my free time cloistered in my room cranking away on a new book about astrophysics, planetary science, and cosmology. You see, more than 30 years ago I was incredibly inspired by Cosmos, the TV series and book, and got to kn...
MORE ABOUT: BOOKSDAVID J. EICHER

Discovery Science joins Asteroid Day project

Great news!Please see the following release . . .DISCOVERY SCIENCE LAUNCHES “COUNTDOWN TO ASTEROID DAY” Do scientists know when an asteroid will strike? How much warning will you get if an asteroid is headed for your city? How frequently...

Lego Ninjas create Dual-head Teaching Telescope

Looking to improve astronomy in the classroom, the Lego Ninjas submitted their prototype for a dual-head teaching telescope to the FLL Global Innovation competition. According to these students, the challenge teachers face with traditional telescopes...

Tales from a budding night sky photographer

Please welcome guest blogger Josh Thum. I had the pleasure of meeting Josh at a Yerkes Observatory star party a few weeks ago and was hugely impressed by the night sky photos he showed me, especially for someone still in high school. I thought you mi...
MORE ABOUT: KOREY HAYNESPHOTOGRAPHY

Astronomy Night on the National Mall 2015

Don Lubowich of Hofstra University writes about his plans for the 2015 rendition of a popular Washington, D.C. event: Astronomy Night on the National Mall. If you are in the Washington area in mid-June, I urge you to join the large group of instituti...

Galileoscope launches IYL 2015 programs

My good friend Rick Fienberg is a man of many talents. He is press officer and director of communications for the American Astronomical Society. He is former editor-in-chief of Sky & Telescope magazine. He is also involved with the educational ou...
MORE ABOUT: DAVID J. EICHER

A short time ago in a state far, far away ...

Happy Star Wars Day! Yes, Astronomy magazine is a brand based in science, not science fiction, but we like to embrace the sci-fi side of things every once in a while in our offices, especially as science fiction has inspired many of us and our contri...

A Starmus video for your weekend enjoyment

This week saw the announcement of the 2016 Starmus Festival slated for June of next year in Tenerife. While you ponder travel plans for this incredible event, a tribute to Stephen Hawking, here’s a video of highlights from the 2014 Starmus to w...

Uwingu announces an out-of-this-world Mother's Day celebration

Posted on behalf of the Uwingu team; Astronomy magazine is a proud partner of this effort to raise funding for space science.Space company Uwingu announced today a special campaign to honor moms for Mother’s Day with place names on its Mars map...
MORE ABOUT: KARRI FERRONUWINGU

Rusty Schweickart's new planetary defense blog posted!

More progress on the Asteroid Day front: Please check out Rusty Schweickart’s new planetary defense blog posted today. Here is a great story about what you can do to help!

URGENT: Thirty Meter Telescope needs your help!

If you haven't heard, there is an ongoing situation with the building of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea. Protests have now endangered the project and threaten its existence. If you care about science, PLEASE GO TO THIS SURVEY AND LET Y...
MORE ABOUT: DAVID J. EICHER

C2E2 hears about Pluto

The fifth annual Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) is over. It began Friday, April 24 and concluded Sunday, April 26. I was there as media, representing Astronomy magazine, for the fourth straight year. And, oh, was it fun! The conventio...
MORE ABOUT: MICHAEL BAKICHC2E2

Reorganized Astronomy Foundation holds annual meeting

The Astronomy Foundation, the outreach group formed by telescope executives in 2010, has had a long year of dormancy. Seeking 501(c)3 nonprofit status, the group has received that designation now and recently held its annual board meeting in conjunct...

Starmus Festival announced for summer 2016 in Tenerife

This morning in London, Garik Israelian, Brian May, Stephen Hawking, and Carlos Alonso announced the next Starmus Festival, which will take place June 27–July 2, 2016, in Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The conference will pay tri...

Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference 2015

So much has happened in the last few days that I am still desperately trying to catch up after my return from New York. One of the great events I had the pleasure to attend was the annual Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference (NEAIC), a specialized pair...

Alexei Leonov to speak in London on May 21

The legendary cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, will give a rare public talk in London on May 21, 2015. The venue will be the IMAX Theatre at the great Science Museum in London, just south of Hyde Park. Here is press informat...
MORE ABOUT: DAVID J. EICHER

PICTURE OF THE DAYsee all »

The Northern Trifid Nebula

The Northern Trifid Nebula is smaller and more distant than its namesake M20. It lies 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. It spans about three light-years and contains both reddish and blue components. The blue is reflection nebula, where dust behind the stars reflects starlight. The red in this case is not from the usual emission of hydrogen, but rather it is the light of a massive young star that emits strongly in Hydrogen-alpha wavelengths, and whose light is being dimmed and reddened by dust within the core of the nebula. To either side of the nebula additional dust and soot is evident in large areas that contain few stars. (10-inch Astro Systeme Austria astrograph at f/6.8, SBIG STL-11000M CCD camera, Hydrogen-alpha/LRGB image with exposures of 440, 350, 180, 160, and 160 minutes, respectively)

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