Astronomy - USA (2020-01)
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 21 C E S T O R IE S In 2019, space science took several major leaps forward. Within our own solar system, a mi ...
When Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989, it revealed six moons circling the ice giant that astronomers hadn’t seen from Earth. ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 23 The earliest snapshot of our universe, dubbed the cosmic microwave background (CMB), comes from 380,000 yea ...
24 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 From March 2015 to March 2016, now-retired astronaut Scott Kelly lived and worked on the Internation ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 25 Several organizations began ramping up their human spaceflight agendas last year. On March 26, Vice Preside ...
26 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 In June 2018, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft began its explora ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 27 InSight sets up shop on Mars NASA’s InSight mission — short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investig ...
28 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 Astronomy kicked off 2019 in high gear: At 12:33 A.M. EST on January 1, New Horizons made its closes ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 29 2 FRB science starts really popping off Since fast radio bursts (FRBs) f lashed onto the scene in 2007, the ...
30 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 Black holes are ubiquitous in our universe. We have seen them gravitation- ally act on objects that ...
SMT GLT LMT ALMA APEX JCMT SMA IRAM SPT WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 31 STORIES TO WATCH FOR IN 2020 The Mars 2020 mission is slated to la ...
A 32 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 The annular eclipse June 21 tracks a narrow path across our planet. Choose the right spot to see i ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 33 Epena. And although some people may choose to view the event from this country, the Moon’s antumbra doesn’t ...
34 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 That town will experience 1 minute 5 seconds of annularity. But the place with the easiest access is ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 35 point just north of Kurukshetra will experience 38 seconds of annularity. After mideclipse, the center line ...
SKY THIS MONTH Visible to the naked eye Visible with binoculars Visible with a telescope Mid-January, 1 hour after sunset Lookin ...
January 4, 4 A.M. Looking east-northeast DRACO URSA MINOR URSA MAJOR BOÖTES CORONA BOREALIS HERCULES Radiant Vega Arcturus 10° N ...
HOW TO USE THIS MAP This map portrays the sky as seen near 35° north latitude. Located inside the border are the cardinal direct ...
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