Astronomy - USA (2020-01)
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WHEN TO VIEW THE PLANETS EVENING SK Y Mercury (west) Venus (southwest) Uranus (south) Neptune (southwest) MIDNIGHT Uranus (west) ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 43 LOCATING ASTEROIDS I Vesta puts on a whale of a show ALTHOUGH ASTRONOMERS DISCOVERED THREE other asteroids ...
44 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 A slew of oddly orbiting objects seems to suggest a massive and as yet unseen world is skulking in t ...
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2012 VP 113 “Biden” Planet 9 2015 TG 387 “The Goblin” Sedna Neptune 100 AU Kuiper Belt Uranus Top down view 46 ASTRONOMY But Far ...
Mْ= 1 Earth Mass Jupiter Mass: 318 Mْ Saturn Mass: 95.2 Mْ Uranus Mass: 14.5 Mْ Neptune Mass: 17.1 Mْ Pluto Mass: 0.003 Mْ Plane ...
500 AU Beginning of Oort Cloud 2,000 AU Top down view 2012 VP 113 “Biden” Planet 9 Sedna 48 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 Saturn and ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 49 the planet, and nailing down their clustering trends much better will better help us locate the planet and ...
50 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 If you plan a trip to the Land Down Under, be sure to check out these great astronomical sites. TEXT ...
Stars near the South Celestial Pole trail above the dome of the 74-inch (1.9 m) reflector at Mount Stromlo Observatory in this e ...
Mount Stromlo Observatory Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex Parkes Observatory Siding Spring Observatory Australia Tele ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 53 role in the 2000 movie The Dish, which tells the story of the Parkes telescope’s role in tracking the Apoll ...
54 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 blip on a monitor that signified all was well with the hardy craft, now some 11 billion miles (18 bi ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 55 The dome of the 74-inch (1.9 m) ref lec- tor — formerly one of Australia’s great telescopes — still stands, ...
Myriad stars, bright and dark nebulae, and clusters lie peppered throughout the bright winter constellation Perseus. BY STEPHEN ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 57 ECULAR CLOUD down your scope, use magnifications of 120x or greater, and look during deep astronomical twil ...
58 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 west-southwest of Menkib. Its location in the dusty Per OB2 Association dims the components by two m ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 59 brightness f luctuations. The discovery is reminiscent of the one by Jay McNeil, who in 2003 visually disco ...
60 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2020 SECRET SKY This month, we’ll track down some discoveries that English astronomer John Russell Hind ( ...
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