2020-05-01_Astronomy

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4 ASTRONOMY • MAY 2020 20 Is the Big Bang in crisis? Stubborn problems with dark matter, dark energy, and cosmic expansion have ...

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WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 7 Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system “A must- ...

8 ASTRONOMY • MAY 2020 ASTRO LETTERS Remembering 2019 Your January issue was spectacular. The “Top 10 space stories of 2019” sho ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 9 ANATOMY OF A COSMIC SWAN Infrared light reveals a famous object’s piecemeal past. The Omega Nebula, also cal ...

10 ASTRONOMY • MAY 2020 QUA NTUM GRAVITY The blinding f lash of light came first, followed by a shock wave and massive earthquak ...

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12 ASTRONOMY • MAY 2020 Our local arm of the Milky Way Galaxy is doing the wave. Harvard University astronomers recently uncover ...

Pluto 17.2° Earth 0.0° Mercury 0 ° Venus 3.4° Mars 1.9° Jupiter 1.3° Saturn 2.5° Uranus 0.8° Neptune 1.8° Spin axis ASTRONOMY: ...

14 ASTRONOMY • MAY 2020 QUA NTUM GRAVITY Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short, powerful blasts of energy that originate outside ou ...

AQUARIUS 109 SAGITTARIUS PISCES^103 85 CAPRI- CORNUS 84 CETUS 40 THE REST 291 VIRGO 77 TAU RUS 45 LIBRA OPHIUCHUS 67 56 LEO 43 E ...

16 ASTRONOMY • MAY 2020 STRANGE UNIVERSE In some alternate universes, astronomy is free. But around here, perusing these pages f ...

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18 ASTRONOMY • MAY 2020 FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION It is hard to say whether I truly remember Mercury astronauts being bolted into t ...

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20 ASTRONOMY • MAY 2020 Spiral galaxy M101 harbors hundreds of Cepheid variables that scientists use to measure the universe’s e ...