Astronomy - USA (2020-03)

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CONTENTS 60 4 ASTRONOMY • MARCH 2020 18 Hubble’s greatest hits The world’s favorite orbiting observatory has transformed our kno ...

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6 ASTRONOMY • MARCH 2020 ASTRO LETTERS Future astronomer I am 12 years old and want to be an astronomer one day. I am writing be ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 7 A GHOSTLY SPACE FACE A look only merging galaxies could give. What at first appears to be a face with glowin ...

8 ASTRONOMY • MARCH 2020 QUANTUM GRAVITY The strange orbits of distant space rocks suggest there’s a 5- to 15-Earth-mass world d ...

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10 ASTRONOMY • MARCH 2020 The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) sits outside the International Space Station, s ...

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12 ASTRONOMY • MARCH 2020 QUANTUM GRAVITY Jupiter’s moon Europa has an icy shell that astronomers have long thought conceals a l ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 13 On November 11, 2019, the planet Mercury made its last transit across the face of the Sun until 2032. This ...

14 ASTRONOMY • MARCH 2020 STRANGE UNIVERSE If you enjoy new vocabulary words, you’ll prob- ably get pleasure from the word subit ...

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16 ASTRONOMY • MARCH 2020 SECRET SKY I n v isu a l a st ronomy, it ’s e a s y to m is s t he fore st for the trees. Sometimes, w ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 17 views show a broken arc (or necklace) of illuminated peaks all along the lunar limb that Saber also imaged ...

The world’s favorite orbiting observatory has transformed our knowledge about exoplanet atmospheres, the fate of the universe, a ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 19 Hits IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE that nearly half the people alive today have never known a world without the Hubb ...

20 ASTRONOMY • MARCH 2020 the imperfection was more than disheartening. Fortunately, NASA designed Hubble to be serviced regular ...