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April 2005 |
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Alan Longstaff How do you search for extraterrestrial life when you don’t know what it will look like? Some conditions for life may be universal, but the telltale signs of life’s existence may not be that obvious. |
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Richard Talcott The Huygens probe plunged into the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, showing Titan is a complex world with an intriguing landscape and possible flowing liquids. |
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Bruce Dorminey Astronomers are scrambling to figure out galaxies that produce so few stars, and glow so dimly, they nearly disappear into the night sky. Amazingly, these oddballs could outnumber “normal” galaxies ten to one. |
pg. 42 |
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Frank Sietzen, Jr. The Hubble Space Telescope’s million-second stare into space is our deepest look at the universe, but astronomers disagree over what it shows. Some argue it includes the earliest galaxies |
pg. 58 |
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Jason Ware Reports of the death of film for astrophotography are exaggerated, so don’t sell your single-lens reflex camera yet. Digital technology can help you create high-quality celestial images caught on film. |
pg. 64 |
Binoculars under $100 By
Phil Harrington Sometimes, observing is best with both eyes open. Binoculars are a great first step into astronomy — learn how to choose a model that’s right for you at a price you can’t resist. |
pg. 70 |
Departments This month in Astronomy Is anyone out there? Letters Bob Berman's strange universe Glenn Chaple's observing basics News — Infant stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
— Dusty debris at Vega
— Big Bang sound waves made galaxies cluster
— Have martian volcanoes erupted recently?
— Black holes crowd the galactic center The sky this month By
Alister Ling, Martin Ratcliffe April 2005: Complementing the Moon's packed schedule of events this month, several planets, comets, asteroids, and galaxies prepare to strut their stuff. |
Ask Astro New products — Meade’s Deep Sky Imager
— Denkmeier’s Binoviewer
— Denkmeier’s 2" SCT diagonal
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