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October 2001 |
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Features Diving for Spacecraft By
Paul Perry Nearly 40 years after Gus Grissom's Mercury spacecraft ended up on the bottom of the Atlantic, intrepid explorers found and recovered it. |
pg. 34 |
Heart of Darkness By
Robert Zimmerman A black hole with more than a million times the mass of the sun wreaks havoc and triggers starbirth in the heart of our galaxy. |
pg. 42 |
Eclipse Chasers on Safari By
Bonnie Gordon, Richard Talcott More than three minutes of fiery prominences and a pearly white corona punctuated an incredible journey to southern Africa. |
pg. 48 |
The Next Generation By
Phil Harrington The new 6-inch Newtonian reflector from Jim's Mobile, Inc. proves to be a nearly ideal instrument for seeing planetary detail and brighter deep-sky objects. |
pg. 68 |
Celestial Portraits: Sagitta, Delphinus, and Vulpecula By
Tom Polakis Dazzling star clusters and a gorgeous planetary nebula make this trio of small autumn constellations fertile ground for backyard observers. |
pg. 72 |
The Planetarium Revolution By
Martin Ratcliffe As digital technology works its way down to planetariums, wide-eyed visitors are experiencing the universe in entirely novel ways. |
pg. 78 |
Departments Behind the Scenes Eclipsing Africa Talking Back AstroNews - A Planetary System Like Our Own?
- Seeing a Black Hole's Edge
- Big Fish in the Kuiper Belt?
- Walking among Baby Giants
- How to Make a Brown Dwarf
- Breaking Up Is Easy to Do Sky Show Saturn and Jupiter steal the show as midnight approaches, while a pair of comets highlight the predawn sky. Ask Astro Strange Universe Star Stuff Products
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- Observing the Moon
- The Planet Observer's Handbook, 2nd
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- Stars and Planets
- A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, 4th
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