Astronomy - September 2015

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DESIGN. PERFORMANCE. QUALITY. M57 Pelican Nebula M51 NGC6888 NGC 6946 Images by Andre Paquette with CGE Pro 1400 HD CELESTRON PR ...

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CONTENTS 4 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 24 Starmus will honor Stephen Hawking in 2016 Next summer, the science festival will revol ...

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10 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 I t’s not often that nearly the whole Western Hemisphere sees a total lunar eclipse. It won’t hap- ...

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ASTRONEWS WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 13 Scientists suspect Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a liquid ocean beneath its global shell of ice, wi ...

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ASTRONEWS 16 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 This year has seen a storm of protests over the upcoming $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Teles ...

ASTRONEWS (^20) Airplane contrails Objects not to scale 40 60 80 100 140 180 220 260 300 340 380 420 460 500 580 620 680 EXOSPHE ...

18 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 I almost made it to the remote Norwegian island of Svalbard on March 19, 2015, to view the next da ...

~2 million light-years M31 compared with angular size of Earth’s Moon Pluto Number discovered Years 225 1 17 237 857 320 0 200 4 ...

ASTRONEWS ASTRONEWS ASTROCONFIDENTIAL BY KARRI FERRON Nanoflares are spontaneous solar heating bursts that each reach some 18 mi ...