2019-12-01_Astronomy

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CONTENTS 44 4 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2019 20 Return to Pluto! Researchers already are planning an ambitious spacecraft that will o ...

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Pluto P^3 68 75 Titan Globe Images from Cassini’s Grand Finale, which began in April of 2017. 180 major features identified and ...

8 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2019 ASTRO LETTERS Globular clusters, tackled Great article in the August issue of Astronomy magazine on ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 9 A STAR’S DEATH GASPS This ghostly nebula previews our Sun’s fate The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the r ...

10 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2019 QUANTUM GRAVITY On September 6, controllers at the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) faci ...

PLANET HUNTER NASA’s TESS telescope completed its first year of scanning the southern sky for exoplanets in July, and has since ...

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WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 13 The Hubble Space Telescope’s newest image of Jupiter, taken June 27 as part of the Outer Planet Atmospheres ...

14 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2019 NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in 2016 with the goal of peering through the giant planet ...

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16 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2019 STRANGE UNIVERSE We’ve gotten so spoiled when it comes to strangeness that white dwarfs no longer d ...

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18 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2019 SECRET SKY On the night of July 16/17, 2019, I watched — for the first time in decades — a partial ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 19 There was also something else at play, which made it difficult to judge the overall intensity of the shadow ...