Astronomy - USA (2021-12)
The surreal je ne sais quoi of Saturn has captivated observ- ers for centuries. That’s largely because the world’s stunning ring ...
Unlike the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, the solar system’s more distant ice giants have largely received the cold shoulder fro ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 23 You’d expect the solar sys- tem’s most distant planet, which is some 30 times farther from the Sun than Ear ...
SWALLOW A doomed star makes a close approach to a black hole in this artist’s concept. The extreme tidal forces exerted by the b ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 25 When a star disappears down the throat of a black hole, the f lash is just the start of the show. BY YVETTE ...
and luminous events in the uni- verse. But few are easy to find, and even fewer emit the radio waves crucial to understanding th ...
also orbit Sgr A*. When two of these objects have a close encoun- ter, their gravity perturbs each other’s orbits and they head ...
to study gamma-ray bursts — immensely energetic bursts of radiation that occur during a supernova or a neutron star merg- er. Bu ...
material it was plowing through. Finally, optical observations con- firmed the location of the source itself: smack in the cente ...
30 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2021 I began my Ph.D. in astronomy in 2011, with an aim of specializ- ing in transient radio astronomy. ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 31 telescopes like MeerKAT. Consisting of 64 antennas in South Africa’s Karoo region, it’s just as sensitive a ...
Visible to the naked eye Visible with binoculars Visible with a telescope 10° Jupiter Saturn Venus Mercury Fomalhaut Altair Dec. ...
Dec. 14, 4 A.M. Looking west CANIS MINOR GEMINI CANIS MAJOR AURIGA Radiant Pollux Castor Procyon Capella Aldebaran ORION PERSEUS ...
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S W 30" Ganymede Callisto Io Europa Dec. 26, 8:24 P.M. EST Path of Comet Leonard 12 Dec. 1 5 10 5° b + k ` b b ` ` c ¡ a g ` e c ...
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Double down on DOUBLE STARS DOUBLE DOUBLEDOUBLE STARS STARSSTARS 40 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2021 Roughly half the sky’s stars have ...
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