Astronomy - June 2015

ASTRONEWS WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 21 Lessons in multiple star formation Astronomers are learning impor- tant lessons in how multiple s ...

OBSERVING TOOLS COMMUNITY What’s new at Astronomy.com. BY KARRI FERRON http://www.twitter.com/ AstronomyMag http://www.facebook. ...

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24 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2015 To t h e M o o n ASTRONOMY: Thanks, Captain Lovell, we certainly appreciate your being here today and h ...

The crew of Apollo 8 — (left to right) Jim Lovell, Bill Anders, and Frank Borman — pose on a simulator at Kennedy Space Center j ...

26 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2015 a time, down to the second, you’ll lose communication with us. By gosh, right on the second, we whipped ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 27 LOVELL: When the Earth drifted over to my window and I looked at it — Bill [Anders] was the photographer — ...

28 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2015 we wouldn’t be able to get back to a safe landing on the Earth. But we had to do that to get the Sun in ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 29 and get home safely before the power died. So they figured out how to speed up the spacecraft, first of all ...

30 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2015 Null and void IF ASTRONOMY IS YOUR THING, it would appear that you’re mostly in love with ... nothing. ...

Let’s talk about nothing. by Bob Berman ...

The Pipe Nebula (Barnard 59) is a dark nebula. It is conspicuous for the absence of light it causes in this region of the sky, a ...

Heliopause Intergalactic space Interstellar space Sun WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 33 In addition to those absorption lines, support for a ...

0.00001 0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1,000 10,000 5 hours Earth 40 minutes Pluto 7 months Proxima Centauri 3 years Fomalhaut 6 ...

u u d Dark energy 68.3% Normal matter 4.9% Dark matter 26.8% KEY WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 35 Most of us regard space as if it were a va ...

Venus slides past the Beehive Cluster 36 ASTRONOMY • JUNE 2015 Visible to the naked eye Visible with binoculars Visible with a t ...

HERCULES CORONA BOREALIS BOÖTES Arcturus URSA MINOR Polaris URSA MAJOR Radiant 10° June 27, 2 A.M. Looking northwest June Boötid ...

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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 ...