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January 1995
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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 Two by Two They Came By
Dan Durda Intriguing double craters, radar images of nearby asteroids, and the discovery of a moon circling Ida all point to a solar system teeming with double asteroids. |
pg. 30 |
Journey to the Heart of the Sun By
David H. Hathaway Travel with a photon from the Sun's core to its surface and discover what forces rule our star. |
pg. 38 |
The Mountains of Io By
Paul M. Schenk Fifteen-year-old Voyager photos meet modern computer techniques to bring a fresh look at Jupiter's volcanically active moon. |
pg. 46 |
Sky Almanac By
Deborah Byrd, Jeff Kanipe Turn your eye, and a telescope, to the sky to see Saturn dominating the evening sky and Venus and Jupiter shining brilliantly before dawn. |
pg. 46 |
Big Scope Observing By
David Higgins A 25-inch telescope captures faint targets deep in space and reveals incredible detail in bright objects. |
pg. 66 |
Discover the Red Planet By
Murray Paulson Unpack your scope and grab this guide to observe our celestial neighbor this winter. |
pg. 72 |
Sailing the Sea of Serenity By
Robert Burnham Craters young and old, distinct rilles and scarps, and towering mountains ringing the shore offer a smorgasbord of visual delights for backyard observers of this lunar sea. |
pg. 76 |
Build a 10-Inch Portascope By
Dave Bruning It's big, it's portable, and it can be yours. Here's how to build a deep-sky observer's dream scope. |
pg. 80 |
Departments Behind the Scenes Build Your Own Spaceship Letters Return to the Moon? AstroForum NASA's Needed Vision AstroNews - Hubble Finds Hidden Quasar
- Shuttle Astronauts Float Free
- A Fall into the Sun
- Hot, Luminous, with Strong Winds
- Gamma-Ray Flashes in Earth's Atmosphere
- Meteorite Crater Under Chesapeake Bay?
- Fewer Novae in the Galaxy
- United States, Russia Consider Pluto
Mission Amateur News - A Midwest Gateway to the Stars
- Astronomical League Spotlights Young
Astronomers New Products - Improved CG-11 Telescope Package
- Long Eye-relief, Waterproof Binoculars
- 1995 Lunar Phase Calendar Astronomy Books Apollo 13: Terror and Triumph AstroBytes Window on the Universe Meetings and Events January - March Resources & Photofacts Advertiser Index Reader Reports
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