September
2008
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Features
How astronomers cracked the Einstein code
Scientists are colliding virtual black holes to put relativity to the final test.
By Adam Frank
Numerical relativity researcher Manuela Campanelli describes the culminating moments of the merger of two black holes.
By Daniel Pendick
Europe's space revolution
Two simultaneous European space missions will explore the cosmic background radiation and the structure that evolved from it.
By Bruce Dorminey
The coming solar superstorm
In 1859, the Sun unleashed its biggest storm in 450 years. We're more vulnerable than ever to its next blast.
By Sten Odenwald
See two movies of the Sun from the Hinode observatory.
Illustrated: Meteors rock Phobos
The Red Planet's largest moon bears scars from eons of major impacts.
By Richard Talcott
NASA's Phoenix digs Mars
The Red Planet's newest spacecraft delves beneath the surface in search of ice.
By Bruce Moomaw
Explore the southern Milky Way's dark clouds
Dusty webs sprawling across the galaxy's richest star fields make for must-see observing.
By Craig Crossen; photos: Gerlad Rhemann
Discover 10 top Milky Way delights
From Sagittarius to Cassiopeia, late summer offers a lot to observe.
By Michael E. Bakich
Easy imaging with the DSI III
Meade's Deep Sky Imager III offers the options of more expensive CCD cameras.
By Mike D. Reynolds
Departments
This month in Astronomy
Letters
Web talk
Bob Berman's strange universe
Stephen James O'Meara's secret sky
Glenn Chaple's observing basics
Phil Harrington's binocular universe
X Cygni and a handful of the Swan's residents provide additional challenges for September binocular observers.
By Phil Harrington
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