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Water flows on Mars
NASA has caught water flowing in streaks down martian slopes, ending the debate about whether or not Mars still has liquid water.
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Press release: Astronomy magazine joins in partnership with SciStarter to promote citizen science projects
Friday, October 2, 2015 | by David Eicher
I’m delighted to announce that good friend Darlene Cavalier of SciStarter and the Science Cheerleaders has initiated a partnership with Astronomy magazine to bring you astronomically themed citizen science projects. You can find them on Astrono...
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Pluto's glaciers look stunning in latest backlit shots from New Horizons
Thursday, September 17, 2015 | by NASA
The latest images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have scientists stunned — not only for their breathtaking views of Pluto’s majestic icy mountains, streams of frozen nitrogen and haunting low-lying hazes, but also for their str...
Presidential star party
Thursday, October 1, 2015 | by Korey Haynes
The White House is throwing a star party, and President Obama is hosting. In 2009, which was also the International Year of Astronomy, the White House held its first Astronomy Night, with special guests including legendary astronauts Buzz Aldrin, S...
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Press release: Stephen Hawking presents the third edition of Starmus Festival in Tenerife
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | by David Eicher
• The theoretical physicist returned to the Canary Islands to announce a star panel of speakers, including twelve Nobel laureates and renowned participants in the space race, who will headline the international festival from June 27 to July ...
Reliving a very dark lunar eclipse
Monday, September 28, 2015 | by David Eicher
Last night was quite a night for astronomy enthusiasts. I spent the evening at home in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with a football game on in the background and working on a variety of projects. When the eclipse began, we had a little scattered cloud in the...
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What does today's Mars announcement really mean?
Monday, September 28, 2015 | by David Eicher
Today, the astronomy world has been rocked by a major announcement on Mars and the existence of flowing water on the planet’s surface. What does this finding really mean? It’s very significant, even if clues and signs for this kind of tem...
Eclipsed
Monday, September 28, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
“It’s like a finger pointing the way to the Moon … Don’t concentrate on the finger, or you’ll miss all that heavenly glory.” — Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon Indeed, our lunar eclipse soirée on the shor...
"Breakthrough! 100 Astronomical Images That Changed the World"
Friday, September 25, 2015 | by David Eicher
If you even are remotely into astroimaging, you should know about a new book by two great astroimagers, Robert Gendler and R. Jay GaBany. Breakthrough! 100 Astronomical Images That Changed the World (Springer-Verlag, New York, 2015, 171 pp., $34.99, ...
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A guide to Comet Catalina
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
Recently, I received this brief story about an object in the current night sky from Neil Norman of Ipswich, England. Because this comet will reach perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) in mid-November, it couldn’t appear in print because tha...
Live tweeting against this week's apocalypse -- and next week's too
Friday, September 18, 2015 | by Eric Betz
Meet NASA’s woman in charge of fighting doomsday asteroids using less than 140 characters.Veronica McGregor is a patient person. Every day, she uses 140 characters or less to knock down doomsday rumors from worried souls convinced the world wil...
Catching up with Kevin Ritschel
Thursday, September 17, 2015 | by David Eicher
An old friend stopped by yesterday. Some 35 years ago, when he was a young vice president at Celestron, Kevin Ritschel became a contributing writer for Deep Sky Monthly, the magazine I had started in high school. He has since been in the thick of t...
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Watch Martin Rees' outstanding lecture
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 | by David Eicher
One of the greatest astronomers we have on Earth is the English Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, Lord Rees of Ludlow. A Fellow of Trinity College at Cambridge University and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridg...
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A September Galaxy Ride
Thursday, September 3, 2015 | by Korey Haynes
On September 18, a group of astronomers and educators will set off on bikes from their home base at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, scant feet from the shore of Lake Michigan, and travel south for 300 miles (500 kilometers) on the historic Route 6...
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Telescopes and talks from Stellafane 2015
Thursday, August 27, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
Recently, Contributing Editor Phil Harrington attended the 2015 Stellafane conference. Here is his account, arranged as a brief introduction and a series of captioned images. More than 1,000 people attended the 80th Stellafane convention in Springfi...
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Steve Cullen joins Astronomy Foundation board
Thursday, August 27, 2015 | by David Eicher
I’m delighted to announce that Steve Cullen, who has served for the last several months as the Astronomy Foundation’s executive director, has joined the foundation’s board of directors. The Astronomy Foundation is the telescope indu...
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To the stars through Doctor Who
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 | by Karri Ferron
Guest blog by Lindsay Henderson, a senior medical student and M.D. candidate from All Saints University, Dominica, specializing in neurology. Having been inspired into the sciences by her geology professor grandfather Bob, she now spends her free tim...
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The classic Trifid
The Trifid Nebula (M20) is one of the best-known deep-sky objects. It resides in the constellation Sagittarius the Archer near another celestial treat, the Lagoon Nebula (M8). The Trifid lies some 9,000 light-years away and is only 300,000 years old. (12-inch Officina Stellare Riccardi Dall-Kirkham telescope, SBIG STF-8300M CCD camera, LRGB image with 19 hours and 20 minutes of exposures)
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