Astronomy - USA (2020-04)

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April 15, 4:30 A.M. EDT 30" W S Ganymede’s shadow Ganymede Io Jupiter 2° E N Path of Comet PanSTARRS May 1 26 21 (^1611) 6 April ...

April 9, 1 hour before sunrise Looking southeast Jupiter Mars Saturn Altair SAGITTARIUS CAPRICORNUS AQUARIUS AQUILA 10° 1° E N M ...

Astronomy’s e d itor i nt e r v ie w s the executive producer of Cosmos and late, great Carl Sagan’s widow. BY DAVID J. EICHER O ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 45 Astronomy: Would you begin, Ann, by telling us a little bit about the new season of Cosmos? Druyan: I am ab ...

46 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 Cosmos would be a new season, that Cosmos would be produced, but that it would be on Fox, which was su ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 47 do the math, which I related to. I loved that he had Maxwell to extrapolate his genius into mathematical eq ...

48 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 Druyan: That was another touchstone for me, for the new season: the idea that dreams are maps. Here’s ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 49 opening remarks were: “If science,” and I’m paraphrasing because I’m doing this from memory, “If science is ...

The Sun Ta u C e t i Proxima Centauri Barnard’s Star Wolf 1061 Gliese 832 GJ 3323 Light-years from the Sun 01 2 34 5 6 789101112 ...

Gliese 625 GJ 667 C TRAPPIST-1 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 d b c b b c f e g b c d e f g h WWW.A ...

52 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 Spring is galaxy season, and no constellation proves it better than this one. BY MICHAEL E. BAKICH Exp ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 53 A crowded field Our first object is the Silver Streak Galaxy (NGC 4216). It lies at the western edge of the ...

16h a 54 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 core, so it doesn’t look nearly as good as others of this type. That said, a 12-inch telescope w ...

15h 14h 13h 12h NGC 5634 M104 NGC 4856 NGC 4697 NGC 4731 M61M61M61M61 NCG 4536NCG 4536NCG 4536NCG 4536 M49M49 NGC 4762 NGC 4567 ...

56 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 Siamese Twins (NGC 4567 and NGC 4568). Under a dark sky, even a 6-inch scope will reveal their overall ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 57 Through a 10-inch tele- scope, observe NGC 4731’s long, relatively bright central bar. If your observing si ...

Discover a world of massive star cities lurking in the skies of fall and spring. BY MICHAEL E. BAKICH BEST ELLIPTICAL galaxies T ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 59 To help you with that goal, I’ve selected 22 of these seldom-observed objects visible during fall and sprin ...

60 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 arms — f loats through space roughly 30 million light-years from Earth. Use high magnification to incr ...