Astronomy

70 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2018

1. RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
   This photographer was on Pensacola
   Beach, Florida, shooting the Moon
   setting August 2, 2017, when a brilliant
   fireball flashed overhead. He called it
   “the luckiest shot of my life.”

• Austin Houser

2. REMEMBER THE CLUSTER
   M92 is often called the “forgotten”
   globular cluster in Hercules because its
   brighter counterpart — the Hercules
   Cluster (M13) — is so well known. But
   M92 isn’t that much fainter. It shines
   with 60 percent of its counterpart’s
   brilliance. • Georges Chassaigne

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