Astronomy - USA (2020-06)

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CONTENTS 28 4 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2020 18 Warm and not so fuzzy The Spitzer Space Telescope ceased operations in January, but not b ...

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6 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2020 ASTRO LETTERS Desert memories Thank you so much for Stephen O’Meara’s March article, “The lunar blackdro ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 7 NEW SOLAR SCOPE SEES FIRST LIGHT A close-up view reveals the Sun’s boiling surface. The Daniel K. Inouye Sol ...

8 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2020 QUANT UM GR AVIT Y Not far from Mars’ equator, a series of strange fissures rip deep into the Red Planet ...

The shaking didn’t stop there. By the end of September, InSight had felt a whopping 174 seismic events. The quakes fell into two ...

10 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2020 QUANT UM GR AVIT Y New data from the first spacecraft to softly land on the lunar farside are offering ...

Saturn 82 1 ST PLACE Neptune 14 Uranus 27 Mercury 0 Venus 0 Earth 1 Mars 2 Jupiter 79 WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 11 On New Year’s Day 201 ...

12 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2020 QUANT UM GR AVIT Y One of the most curious conse- quences of Einstein’s theory of relativity is frame-d ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 13 On January 30, NASA decom- missioned the Spitzer Space Telescope, ending its more- than-16-year run. Launch ...

14 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2020 STRANGE UNIVERSE The overall theme of this page is the odd or unusual. So, the sky’s No. 1 most-observe ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 15 The Solar System Mineral Kit comes to you exclusively from contributing editor, Michael Bakich, and the tea ...

16 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2020 FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION Has it really been 30 years? Looking back, I was just a kid. Granted, I was a ki ...

True Astronomy and Sciences ASY • 06/01/2020 • 2C • 1 PG Working mechanism of solar system based over discovered (understood) ma ...

18 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2020 Warm and not so fuzzy ON JANUARY 30, NASA TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS ON THE SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE. The inf ...

The Spitzer Space Telescope ceased operations in January, but not before giving scientists keen insight into star birth, exoplan ...

20 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2020 Spitzer discovered Saturn’s outermost ring in 2009. Named after the moon Phoebe that orbits just beyon ...