Astronomy - USA (2022-02)

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 21 Yellowballs, such as those in the center of this false- color Spitzer space telescope image, were discovere ...

44 Astronomers spot a new type of supernova ASTRONOMERS HAVE LONG KNOWN that stars more massive than about eight Suns die in pow ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 23 33 ON MAY 30, 2020, two astronauts launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX’s Crew D ...

24 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2022 Mars gets busy LAST YEAR, OUR TOP-RANKED science story was Mars — specifically, the launch of three ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 25 The car-sized rover touched down in Jezero Crater near an ancient river delta using the same sky crane mane ...

This ice giant hid from humanity’s view for millennia. But eventually, its sibling planet gave it aw ay. BY WILLIAM SHEEHAN 26 A ...

Voyager 2 captured this stunning shot of Neptune with its narrow angle camera on Aug. 31, 1989. NEPTUNE: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/KEVIN ...

Saturn and below the sphere of the fixed stars was devoid of features, as it had been since Aristotle’s time. And all the solar ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 29 ABOVE: This 1889 sketch shows a proposed but never realized ceiling project by French artist Edmond- Louis ...

30 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2022 Le Verrier attacked the problem with his consid- erable computational abilities. He was “a calculat ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 31 On the other hand, recent research has added new perspectives on some important issues about the calculatio ...

Visible to the naked eye Visible with binoculars Visible with a telescope 10° SAGITTARIUS AQUILA OPHIUCHUS SCORPIUS Feb. 12, 1 h ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 33 RISING MOON I The mountain above the pole WHERE’S THE BEST PLACE on the Moon for a solar power station? Tha ...

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MEET Throughout history, innumerable people have made valuable contributions to astronomy. But since we’re short on space, here’ ...