Astronomy - September 2015
ASTRONEWS Nearest neighbor 0° Antares 39.12° Achernar 39.11° Fomalhaut 39.11° Regulus 37.05° Canopus 36.22° Altair 34.19° Arctur ...
0.5° CYGNUS 27 Cygnus X-1 d N E 22 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 isual “wow” objects — those telescopic show- pieces that awe and a ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 23 JMI Telescopes The product that put JMI on the map ends the focusing wiggles with the most compact drive sy ...
24 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 t a press conference in April, a distinguished group announced that next year’s Starmus Festival w ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 25 Powered by ZinioTM, digital editions are available on PC; Macintosh; AndroidTM; iPad®; iPhone®; and Windows ...
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28 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 Bursting the bubbles ighten your seat belt. This odyssey takes us beyond our universe to a realm o ...
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10 –32 second 1 second 100 seconds 380,000 years Yo u 30 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 After we accept the frustration of never kno ...
300–500 million years Billions of years 13.8 billion years One dimension Two dimensions Three dimensions Four dimensions Time Yo ...
Our +++= universe Yo u Electromagnetic force Other universes Strong nuclear force Weak nuclear force Gravity Big Bang Inflation ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 33 “Science is useful insofar as it explains and predicts why things are the way they are and not some other w ...
Moon’s distance from Earth Twice the Earth-Moon distance ½° ¼° 34 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 A: Mars’ moons are easily vis- ible ...
13 1 2 132 2 3 1 2 3 Brightness Brightness Time Time WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 35 to spiral inward toward the moon (rings, by the way, a ...
Neptune near its peak 36 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 Visible to the naked eye Visible with binoculars Visible with a telescope MA ...
10° CASSIOPEIA ANDROMEDA PISCES ARIES CETUS PERSEUS AURIGA Polaris Capella Pleiades Algol Radiant September 9, 11 P.M. Looking n ...
CORONA AUSTRALIS TELESCOPIUM SCUTUM LACERTA LY R A VULPECULA SAGITTA AQUILA DELPHINUS EQUULEUS AQUARIUS CAPRICORNUS CYGNUS MICRO ...
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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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