Astronomy - September 2015
This map unfolds the entire night sky from sunset (at right) until sunrise (at left). Arrows and colored dots show motions and l ...
1° CANCER i h j a b e d M44 c Path of Comet 67P Sept 10 13 16 19 22 25 N E Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 10° September 21, 1 h ...
Ceres meets the Archer A partial eclipse for southern Africa (^) GET DAILY UPDATES ON YOUR NIGHT SKY AT http://www.Astronomy.com ...
Rubber ducky Rendezvous with an evolving The “neck” of Comet 67P/Churyumov- Gerasimenko looks slightly bluish in this false-colo ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 45 O n November 12, 2014, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta space- craft jettisoned some of its most p ...
largest solar panel so that as 67P neared the Sun in mid-2015, the added illumination would revive the probe. The effort paid of ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 47 “head”) by a narrow “neck.” The body measures 2.5 by 2.1 by 1.1 miles (4.1 by 3.3 by 1.8km) and the head sp ...
48 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo rado, and Alice’s principal investigator, in a June ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 49 dust may have made its way into the ovens during the probe’s mul- tiple bounces, so there may already be ma ...
50 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 Cannibal star Astronomers dreamt up the idea of Thorne-Żytkow objects — dead stars inside dying st ...
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52 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 A working theory TZOs are named after Kip Thorne and Anna Żytkow, two astronomers who worked out d ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 53 nova explosion in visible light. Theorists are working on various models, but as yet there is no consensus ...
54 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 Hunting for TZOs But tracking these mysterious objects down is not an easy task. “To an outside ob ...
Sun-like star Massive star Thorne-Żytkow object Red giant Pulsar WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 55 It turns out there was much more to like a ...
56 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 IMAGINE A CRISP, CLEAR FALL EVENING: You are lounging among a few hundred fellow earthlings on an ...
UMBRA Penumbral eclipse begins 8:12 P.M. EDT Partial eclipse begins 9:07 P.M. EDT Totality begins 10:11 P.M. EDT Greatest eclips ...
10° CETUS ANDROMEDA PEGASUS AQUARIUS ARIES PISCES Fomalhaut Eclipsed Moon September 27, 9:47 P.M. CDT Looking southeast 58 ASTRO ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 59 the Harvest Moon (the Full Moon closest to the September equi- nox) and complete a tetrad (a rare cycle of ...
60 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2015 M anufacturers from around the world continue to introduce innovative products that enhance the am ...
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