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Keep an Eye on Hypergiant
Rho Cassiopeiae, Alex Lobel
An eruption in 1946 of mighty Rho Cassiopeiae put
the astronomy community on guard, and recent, exciting changes
in the star may portend something big and explosive for it in
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Archaeoastronomy
and the Ancient Maya World, Edwin L. Barnhart
Nearly two millennia ago, the Maya were putting mathematics
and celestial observations to use in their calendrical system,
architecture, and ritual. Today, archaeoastronomers are working
to piece their science and culture back together. |
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Truth and Beauty
in Cosmology: Does the Universe Have an Aesthetic?, Chris
Impey
Astronomy is an empirical science, yet scientific definitions
of truth and beauty are closely tied to the fact that mathematics
appears to provide an accurate description of the physical
Universe. |
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Departments
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Editorial, James C. White II
Casting Stones Toward the Heavens |
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Living
Universe, Monika Kress
Supernovae and the Solar System |
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Planetary
Perspectives, Daniel D. Durda
Radar Glints from Ethane Lakes |
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Lives
of Stars, Jennifer Birriel
The Galaxy’s Oldest Stars |
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Armchair
Astrophysics, Christopher Wanjek
A New View of the Milky Way |
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Annals
of Astronomy, Clifford Cunningham
The Reach of Gravity |
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Echoes
of the Past, Katherine Bracher
The Maria Mitchell Observatory |
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Celestial
Wonderings, Lou Mayo
Hello Saturn, Goodbye Mars |
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Observer's
Page, John Shibley
Look Long and Prosper |
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Works
of Note |
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Sky Events, Richard
Talcott
December/January Sky Map
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Sky Map |
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Society
Scope |
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