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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Astronomy Magazine

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Star formation explanation

Using Hubble, astronomers have found that an elliptical galaxy's black hole, jets, and newborn stars are all parts of a self-regulating cycle of star formation

Year of Pluto

Revelations of a distant world

New view

NASA's DSCOVR satellite shows the Moon crossing Earth's face
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Surface studies

Rosetta's Philae lander finds ingredients for life on Comet 67P
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Hubble at 25

How the space telescope changed the cosmos

Shooting stars

Perfect conditions for summer's top meteor shower
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Indonesian Islands Eclipse

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

Close find

Spitzer confirms the discovery of the nearest rocky planet

Uwingu Mars

Name a crater ... make an impact!
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Exclusive podcast series

Editor David J. Eicher conducts extensive interviews with the world's top astrophysicists, planetary scientists, and cosmologists

Take the Universe With You!

First exo-aurora

Powerful aurora found beyond our solar system

IAU day 2: What makes a brown dwarf?

My second day at the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) general assembly meeting featured one of my favorite parts about attending science conferences: watching scientists fight! Okay, astronomers are a pretty friendly bunch, so by "fight," I m...
MORE ABOUT: BROWN DWARFSIAUKOREY HAYNES

New Horizons team finds haze, flowing ice on Pluto

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 &...
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Aloha from the IAU

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) holds its general assembly meeting only once every three years, for two full weeks. This is the meeting that infamously stripped Pluto of its planethood in 2006. This year, the resolutions up for vote cover ...
MORE ABOUT: IAUKOREY HAYNES

Change Your View: Fly in July

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...

Visit from an old friend, Norm Sperling

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...
MORE ABOUT: DAVID J. EICHER

Only 750 days until the eclipse

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...
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Watch the Asteroid Day London discussion

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...

Humans cling to their primal fear of the dark

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

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...
MORE ABOUT: DAVID J. EICHEREAA

Mike Reynolds reports from ALCon 2015

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...
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Making sense of Pluto

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 ...
MORE ABOUT: DAVID J. EICHERPLUTO

Check out Rhodri Evans' "The Cosmic Microwave Background"

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

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

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...

Science rocks Comic-Con

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 ...
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New Horizons makes history at Pluto

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...
MORE ABOUT: DAVID J. EICHERPLUTO

Article on Garik Israelian published in "The Financial Times"

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...
MORE ABOUT: DAVID J.EICHER

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Globular cluster M3

Globular cluster M3 lies in the northern constellation Canes Venatici the Hunting Dogs. Sharp-eyed observers can spot it as a 6th-magnitude “star” from a dark site. M3 lies some 34,000 light-years from Earth. (12.5-inch Starizona Hyperion telescope, SBIG STL-11000M CCD camera, LRGB image with exposures of 230, 50, 50, and 50 minutes, respectively)
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