Astronomy - 06.2019

The world’s best-selling astronomy magazine JUNE 2019 http://www.Astronomy.com Vol. 47 Issue 6 EXPLORING The Outer Limits univ ...

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WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 5 Lowell Observatory See the 24-inch Alvan Clark refractor, the camera that captured Pluto, and more. U.S. G ...

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ASTROLETTERS 8 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2019 No Bull “Specters of past constellations” in your February issue is a fine article on faile ...

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ASTRONEWS 10 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2019 One of InSight’s instruments is stuck in the ground; engineering models on Earth could solve ...

The Moon 400,000 300,000 200,000 100,000 0 Jupiter Earth Miles 86,882 miles (139,823 km) 7,918 miles (12,742 km) 2,158 miles (3, ...

12 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2019 W ith sky observ- ing, as in most things, success is more satisfy- ing than fail- ure. If you want to s ...

ASTRONEWS 5° DORADO PUPPIS CARINA VOLANS RETICULUM LMC Canopus South Celestial Pole WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 13 For the first time ever ...

BINOCULARUNIVERSE BY PHIL HARRINGTON 1° N E ARIES CETUS TAURUS Path of Vesta Oct 21 31 Nov 10 20 30 Dec^10 _ j k h 1° OPHIUCHUS ...

ASTRONEWS Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko Asteroid 216 Kleopatra Asteroid 624 Hektor Comet 1P/Halley WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 15 Altho ...

16 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2019 O ver the years, I’ve always been an advocate for the small-aperture telescope, tout- ing its remarkabl ...

ASTRONEWS 400° –300° –200° –100° –200° –100° 0° 100° 200° 0° 100° 200° 300° 400° 400° 800° 900° Pluto Uranus Jupiter Mars Eart ...

ASTRONEWS 18 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2019 On February 22, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, also named VSS Unity, flew in space for the s ...

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Astronomers have found two different — and mutually exclusive — values for the expansion rate of the universe. by Robert Naeye T ...