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Visit from an old friend, Norm Sperling
Monday, August 3, 2015 | by David Eicher
This Monday morning, I had a delightful email from an old friend I hadn’t talked to in ages. Norm Sperling, well known astronomy enthusiast, editor, writer, and intellectual, was in the area, and he ended up having lunch with the Astronomy staf...
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New Horizons team finds haze, flowing ice on Pluto
Friday, July 24, 2015 | by NASA
Flowing ice and a surprising extended haze are among the newest discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons mission, which reveal distant Pluto to be an icy world of wonders. “We knew that a mission to Pluto would bring some surprises, and now &...
Only 750 days until the eclipse
Friday, July 31, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
Saturday, August 1, marks another milestone in the countdown toward the biggest public science event in history — 750 days until the total solar eclipse August 21, 2017. Rather than write a long blog about the importance of it, I’ll direc...
Change Your View: Fly in July
Friday, July 10, 2015 | by Celestron
Show us just how FLY you can be this July! Whether flying out of town for vacation, or making the work day fly by in the office, Celestron wants you to capture the moment and Change Your View on Summer Vacation. Catch all the details and see who's en...
Watch the Asteroid Day London discussion
Thursday, July 30, 2015 | by David Eicher
A month ago, June 30, astronomers around the world marked the first Asteroid Day, drawing attention to the need for a better survey of Near-Earth Asteroids. Now you can watch the panel discussion that took place at the Science Museum in London, invol...
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Humans cling to their primal fear of the dark
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 | by Eric Betz
Your chances of being attacked, robbed, or struck by a car are no worse on a dimly lit street. And yet, like cavemen huddled around a campfire, humans are still comforted by light. Most of the 7 billion people on planet Earth have never seen the Milk...
Astronomy magazine at EAA Airventure Oshkosh
Monday, July 27, 2015 | by David Eicher
On Friday, July 24, 2015, Senior Editor Michael Bakich and I traveled to the world’s greatest airshow, EAA Airventure Oshkosh, to scope out the events being held by NASA and other cool things. Each year, more than 10,000 pilots flock to Oshkosh...
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Mike Reynolds reports from ALCon 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
The Astronomical League (AL) and Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO) held their annual meeting (the Astronomical League Convention, or ALCon) jointly July 6-11 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The hosts were members of the Astronomical Soci...
Making sense of Pluto
Monday, July 20, 2015 | by David Eicher
A week later, the incredible historic moment has passed. The flyby occurred. We have seen some spectacular images of Pluto and Charon. Let's take a breath to make sense of the Pluto we now know.First, congratulations to Alan Stern and the entire New ...
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Check out Rhodri Evans' "The Cosmic Microwave Background"
Monday, July 20, 2015 | by David Eicher
It’s relatively rare that an astronomy book rolls along that I think astronomy enthusiasts MUST have. Such is the case, however, with The Cosmic Microwave Background, new from Springer. Welsh research fellow astronomer Rhodri Evans of Cardiff U...
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Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, others announce unprecedented new SETI survey
Monday, July 20, 2015 | by David Eicher
A momentous event in searching for life in the universe occurred today during a press conference held in London. Breakthrough Prize chairman Yuri Milner, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, and a host of other scientists announced a $100 million e...
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Asteroid Day blog post from Debbie Lewis
Thursday, July 16, 2015 | by David Eicher
Please read this new Asteroid Day blog post from Debbie Lewis, a risk crisis and disaster management specialist who is an Asteroid Day science advisor. I think you will find it thought provoking . . . Follow David J. Eicher on Twitter: www.twitter.co...
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Science rocks Comic-Con
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
San Diego Comic-Con 2015 is now over. This major pop-culture event ran from July 9 through the 12th, not counting the preview night July 8. Quick summary: It rocked! NASA held two major events, panels concerned with education abounded, and it seemed ...
New Horizons makes history at Pluto
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 | by David Eicher
Congratulations to Alan Stern and the entire New Horizons team for today’s historic flyby success at Pluto!The color image released this morning is magnificent and will be in a sense the opening salvo of 16 months of data scientists receive and...
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Article on Garik Israelian published in "The Financial Times"
Monday, July 13, 2015 | by David Eicher
Check out this great story about my friend Garik Israelian, astrophysicist at the Institute for Astrophysics in Tenerife, and founder and director of the Starmus Festival.What a nice piece!(Note: The Financial Times has a pay wall. You must pay a sub...
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Dave Eicher astrophysics book to be published in November
Thursday, July 9, 2015 | by David Eicher
The product of my last few months’ writing, The New Cosmos: Answering Astronomy’s Big Questions, will be published this November by Cambridge University Press. It’ll consist of about 100,000 words and 100 color photos on hot develop...
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Dave Eicher to speak at American Museum of Natural History; participate in 20th anniversary StarFest
Thursday, July 9, 2015 | by David Eicher
I want to thank my good friends in the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York (AAA) — Marcelo Cabrera, Susan Andreoli, and David Kraft — for inviting me to speak this fall at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. On Fri...
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Centaurus A
Peculiar galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky. Perhaps its finest feature is the incredible dust lane that runs across its middle. Like many galaxies, Centaurus A contains a supermassive black hole, which creates a giant jet blasting away from its center. The bright central bulge and dust lane are great targets for amateur astronomers because both can be seen through finder scopes and large binoculars. From a dark location with steady air, this galaxy is visible to the naked eye. (10-inch Ritchey-Chrétien reflector, SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera, LRGB image with exposures of 213, 85, 85, and 85 minutes, respectively)
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