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March 1990
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The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each monthly issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color photography, complete sky coverage, spot-on observing tips, informative telescope reviews, and much more! All this in an easy-to-understand, user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level. |
Features Venus: The Hellish Place Next Door By
R. Stephen Saunders Venus has an ocean of clouds and a surface temperature that can melt lead. What happened to our sister planet? |
pg. 18 |
A Journey with Light By
Govert Schilling Follow a photon as it makes its way from a distant quasar to Earth. |
pg. 30 |
Where Are the Solar Neutrinos? By
John N. Bahcall How something as elusive as the neutrino can stand astronomy and physics on its head. |
pg. 40 |
ASTRONOMY Sky Almanac ASTRONOMY Tests the OR-840 Newtonian Telescope By
Jeff Kanipe Variations on a classic telescope: One company's attempt at improving the Newtonian reflector. |
pg. 60 |
How to Turn Astro-Negatives into Great Astro-Slides By
Robert Bunge Converting color negatives into slides is a snap with Kodak's 5072 film. |
pg. 66 |
Explore the Southern Sky By
Gregg D. Thompson The Era Carinae Nebula, Omega Centauri, the Magellanic Clouds - only in the southern sky. |
pg. 72 |
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