Astronomy - USA (2022-02)

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4 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2022 16 COVER STORY Top 10 space stories of 2021 Over the last year, researchers mourned the loss of Arec ...

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6 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2022 ASTRO LETTERS Flashes of red I just read Stephen James O’Meara’s article on red meteors in the Septe ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 7 TWIN JETS Hubble snaps an image of a bizarre object. The Orion B molecular cloud hides HH111, a prime exampl ...

8 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2022 QUA N T U M GR AVIT Y Some 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion the Hunter is the tripl ...

BRAIN DAMAGE A study of five male cosmonauts who spent an average of 169 days aboard the International Space Station found long- ...

QUA N T U M GR AVIT Y The silver screen heads to space The world of Hollywood has left Earth and ven- tured to space. William Sh ...

FOURTH TIME’S THE CHARM IN 2016, scientists spotted not one, not two, but three views of the same supernova, referred to as Supe ...

12 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2022 NASA TESTS SPACESUITS FOR ARTEMIS No, this isn’t space art — it’s Oregon. In August 2021, NASA’s Ha ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 13 STRANGE UNIVERSE February is official Choose Your Favorite Constellation Month. Well, OK — maybe it’s not e ...

14 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2022 OBSERVING BASICS As I mentioned in my last column, 2022 will be the year of my farewell tour as the ...

Mare Erythraeum Chryse Aurorae Sinus South polar cap (SPC) Southern cloud Northern cloud Mare Erythraeum Aurorae Sinus Southern ...

OLLOWING IN THE WAKE OF an unprecedented year, 2021 was certainly filled with ups and downs. The global COVID-19 pandemic contin ...

surface during a six-second-long touch- and-go sample collection procedure. In fact, the sample head snagged such a large haul t ...

Scientists take a peek behind a black hole EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF general relativity has been confirmed several times in recent ye ...

The Hubble Space Telescope hiccups EVEN AFTER NEARLY 32 years, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) remains one of astronomy’s workh ...

We set our sights on Venus VENUS IS ALREADY the hottest destination in the solar system — liter- ally, with surface temperatures ...