Astronomy
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 21 Last year, we found a star with seven Earth-sized planets, said goodbye to the Cassini mission, and watched ...
22 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2018 Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s most intriguing worlds. It hosts a thick ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 23 A trip around the Moon SpaceX certainly has big goals. In 2012, the aerospace company was the first private ...
Antihydrogen n^ =^2 n^ =^1 n = 3 Photon Nucleus (antiproton) Positron Positron energy levels 24 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2018 Swirls ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 25 In 2011, physicists with the ALPHA experiment at Europe’s CERN laboratory were able to create and trap anti ...
26 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2018 On September 15, the Cassini spacecraft took its last bow. It grazed Saturn’s atmosphere, burned up ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 27 One of the most mysterious signals encountered in modern astrophysics is a blast of radio waves lasting onl ...
28 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2018 One of humanity’s greatest discov- eries will be the confirmation that life exists elsewhere in our ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 29 August 17, 2017, began like any other day. But at 8:41 A.M. EDT, everything changed. For 100 seconds, rippl ...
Our solar system harbors at least 180 moons. Now astronomers have launched a quest to find satellites in another system. by Nola ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 31 O n the African savanna, a tiny telescope with owl-like eyes peers at the heavens. Amid Antarctic ice, a la ...
32 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2018 Among the Sun’s family, moons are abundant. Only two planets — Mercury and Venus — lack orbiting com ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 33 An exomoon alone could be a challenge to detect. While Beta Pic b’s entire Hill sphere will take from early ...
34 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2018 Beta Pic b’s Hill sphere stretches roughly the distance between the Sun and Earth. Any rings would h ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 35 View from a frozen desert There is one place on Earth where the star remains visible throughout the Souther ...
10° GEMINI HYDRA LEO CANCER Castor Regulus Alphard Pollux Eclipsed Moon January 31, 5:30 A.M. PST Looking west A great view of t ...
10° January 4, 4 A.M. Looking east-northeast DRACO URSA MINOR URSA MAJOR BOÖTES CORONA BOREALIS HERCULES Radiant Vega Arcturus Q ...
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PATHOF THE PLANETS The planets in the sky These illustrations show the size, phase, and orientation of each planet and the two b ...
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