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January 2000
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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 The Evolving Sun In this special issue, ASTRONOMY takes a detailed look at our star. |
pg. 43 |
Curtain Call By
Thomas Hayden The sun may seem a constant source of light and heat, but within a billion years it will fry our planet. |
pg. 44 |
Exodus from Earth By
Tom Siegfried Before our home world becomes uninhabitable, we'll be forced to seek a new home among the stars. |
pg. 50 |
When the Solar Wind Blows By
Katy Human Jo Ann Joselyn, who predicts the effects of the sun on Earth and in space, looks forward to a busy year. |
pg. 56 |
Quaking Sun By
Tony Ortega A pioneer in the tongue-twisting field of helioseismology, Jack Harvey probes the sun's dynamic interior. |
pg. 60 |
Underground Astronomer By
Marcia Bartusiak For three decades, Raymond Davis has searched for solar neutrinos from beneath the Black Hills, yet he can't find as many as theory predicts. |
pg. 64 |
Celestial Portraits: Perseus and Taurus By
Tom Polakis You won't regret spending a chilly winter night exploring the big, bright star clusters in these constellations. |
pg. 80 |
Deconstructing the Millennium By
David H. Grinspoon The passage of a thousand years may seem like a big deal, but it's really just a relic of our counting system. |
pg. 88 |
Ten Top Picks By
Martin Ratcliffe Sure, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the 1991 solar eclipse were awesome, but did they crack our list of the century's best sky events? |
pg. 94 |
The Sunny Side of Stargazing By
Phil Harrington This year promises to be a good one for observers of our daytime star, as sunspot activity peaks. |
pg. 100 |
Departments Behind the Scenes Busy Sun Talking Back AstroNews - Pluto Fragments May Be Collision Relics
- New Comet Bright in July
- Neptune and Uranus Are Gems
- Chandra Scope Reveals Mysterious Ring
- NASA Scrambling to Surmount Orbiter Loss
- Gamma-Ray Burst May Have Spawned a
Supernova
- Supernova Clues Found in Antarctic Ice
- Undiscovered Moons May Shape Neptunian
Ring
- Mars Craters Lost at Sea? Sky Show A spectacular total lunar eclipse awaits the Americas and Europe this month. Ask Astro Star Stuff Products
- Hubble Deep Fields Poster
- Nikon Binoculars
- Pulsating Eyepiece Illuminator
Books
- Journey Beyond Selene
- Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy
- A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets
Bytes
- DigitalSky Voice 2.02 Looking Ahead Advertiser Index Hot Shots The Race for Darkness Ultimate Exposure
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