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December 1999 |
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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 Forging the Future In this special issue, ASTRONOMY looks at the century ahead. |
pg. 43 |
Looking for Life By
Robert Naeye Future space observatories will probe the births of galaxies and hunt down possible life-bearing planets. |
pg. 44 |
Giant Eyes on the Sky By
Govert Schilling If you think today's telescopes are big, just wait for the monsters now being planned. |
pg. 48 |
Pursuing the Planets By
Ray Jayawardhana Robot explorers will scour the solar system this next decade, including a dozen headed for Mars. |
pg. 52 |
Unveiling Tomorrow's Technology By
Ralph Lorenz NASA's New Millennium Program is testing cutting-edge technology for 21st-century space exploration. |
pg. 56 |
Settling the Solar System By
Aries Keck We've been stuck in Earth orbit for nearly 30 years, but humans may soon set their sights much higher. |
pg. 60 |
Dan Goldin's Vision By
Dan Goldin NASA's Administrator looks far into the future at what we may be able to accomplish in space. |
pg. 64 |
A Partial View of Totality ASTRONOMY's editors blanketed Europe from England to the Black Sea for a ringside seat to the century's last total eclipse. |
pg. 80 |
Mapping the Heavens By
Andrea Gianopoulos Which of four leading programs will best recreate the night sky on your computer? |
pg. 86 |
Shoot the Moon in Shadow By
Phil Harrington A spectacular lunar eclipse awaits the Americas and Europe in January. Here's how to record it on film. |
pg. 92 |
The Universe in Deep Color Galaxies, clusters, nebulae, and more - Tony and Daphne Hallas capture the beauty of the night sky. |
pg. 98 |
Departments Behind the Scenes Cutting Into Space Talking Back AstroNews - Asteroid Genealogies Come into Focus
- Sluggish Pulsar Puzzles Theorists
- Spectrum Solves Stellar Mystery
- Canadians Create Dark-Sky Preserve
- Hourglass Nebula Defies Explanation
- Hubble Shoots Hickson Galaxy Group
- Distant Planet Orbits Two Stars
- Cassini Captures the Moon
- A Black Hole's Lost Supernova Sky Show Colorful streaks of light will pepper the night sky at midmonth as the Geminid meteor shower reaches its annual peak. Star Stuff Products
- Astronomy Calendars for 2000
- Understanding the Universe: An Introduction
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