Astronomy - USA (2021-12)

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4 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2021 16 COVER STORY Cosmic tour of the planets With thousands of exotic exoplanets known, the worlds of o ...

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6 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2021 ASTRO LETTERS A new light on Apollo I’ve been enjoying your 50th anniversary article series on the A ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 7 MARTIAN STRING OF CRATERS ESA captures a trio of impact craters. Unlike Earth, the surface of Mars is rife w ...

8 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2021 QUANTUM GRAVITY The Geminid meteor shower is best known for the reliable show it puts on during the ...

or dislodge rock from a fracture,” said study co-author Björn Davidsson of JPL in a press release. “Our models suggest that very ...

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FOR 50 YEARS, researchers have struggled to explain one of Jupiter’s enduring mysteries: Why is its upper atmosphere so hot? Bas ...

12 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2021 STRANGE UNIVERSE Nearly nine years ago, this page explored ran- domness and its apparent ability to ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 13 OBSERVING BASICS This month, we’re going to step away from our usual observing content and instead take a l ...

14 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2021 SECRET SKY British astronomer Admiral William Henry Smyth may have been a pioneer in applying color ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 15 in the second half of the 19th century and spiked to 48 percent in the 20th century. The researchers also d ...

Cosmic tour of the Our planet, despite all the challenges we face living on it, is an unparalleled abode for life. Located in th ...

planets Mercury, which is the smallest and innermost planet, is constantly cooked by sunlight. Despite its prox- imity to our st ...

Despite being the most brilliant planet in our sky, Ve nu s o f f e r s l i t t l e v i s u a l oomph when observed from afar. ( ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 19 As the most explored world in the solar system (save Earth), Mars has enjoyed the lion’s share of planetary ...

Like Mars, Jupiter has received a lot of atten- tion during the era of space exploration. That began with Pioneer 10, which f le ...