Saturday, May 30, 2015

Astronomy Magazine

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Cause and effect

Hubble survey confirms link between mergers and supermassive black holes with relativistic jets

Asteroid Day

The truth about the impact threat facing Earth

Impact jet

Hubble sees shock collision inside black hole jet
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Nasty behavior

Hubble observes a massive star with an odd nature
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Hubble at 25

How the space telescope changed the cosmos

Spring rings

Saturn is at its 2015 peak, shining brilliantly all night
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Indonesian Islands Eclipse

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

Magnetar mystery

A neutron star is exhibiting some unusual X-ray behavior

Uwingu Mars

Name a crater ... make an impact!
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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

Ends July 24, 2015

Heart of darkness

Astronomers discover new kind of "dark" globular star cluster

A word on Starmus from Stephen Hawking

From Professor Hawking:I’m touched and honored that the third STARMUS in Tenerife, June 27 to July 2, 2016, is titled “Beyond the Horizon: A Tribute to Stephen Hawking.” — SHFollow David J. Eicher on Twitter: www.twitter.com/d...

Remembering Clyde Tombaugh on Pluto's doorstep

I have a soft spot in my heart for Pluto. When I was a young editor at Astronomy magazine and editor of Deep Sky, in the 1980s, I hung around a set of friends and writers that included comet discoverer David Levy, Lowell Observatory astronomer Brian ...

Gearing up for the World Science Festival

Tomorrow morning I’ll leave for New York (once again!), this time to go to the World Science Festival. Astronomy and Discover magazines will be partnering with Scistarter, the citizen science group headed by Darlene Cavalier (who is also behind...

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...

Tomorrowland is a film every future scientist should see 

NASA’s man in Hollywood says the latest rash of sci-fi films show the agency still holds sway with young minds more than half a century after the launch of the Space Age. “The future can be scary,” Frank Walker (played by George ...

A thought from my latest book ...

This will be published with about another 100,000 words in The New Cosmos: Answering Astronomy’s Big Questions, to be published by Cambridge University Press this coming October.Enjoy!Follow David J. Eicher on Twitter: www.twitter.com/deicher...
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Sir Harold Kroto and David Eicher join Starmus Festival board

Tenerife, Canary Islands, May 20, 2015: Garik Israelian, director of the Starmus Festival, the international celebration of astronomy, allied sciences, music, and the arts, today announces two additions to the Starmus Festival board of directors. Bot...

Get ready for Asteroid Day festivities in London

The first ever Asteroid Day will raise awareness for near-Earth asteroid research, highlighting the danger space rocks pose to us. The commemoration will take place June 30, 2015, on the 107th anniversary of the Tunguska event, when an asteroid or co...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...
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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...
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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!

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ISS transit

This imager pointed his filtered telescope/camera setup at the Sun while the International Space Station was transiting (crossing) its face. (5.2-inch Stellarvue SVA130 EDT refractor at f/7, Fujifilm XT-1 DSLR, ISO 640, eight frames per second, each a 1/4000-second exposure, taken February 20, 2015, at 12:34:51.5 p.m. PST, from Palo Alto Foothills Park)

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