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Is
Space Art Dead?, Lynette
R. Cook
Is the field of space art doomed by the rise of
spectacular imagery
from Hubble and other space telescopes, and a corresponding
decline in
demand for "artistic" views of the cosmos? |
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Globular
Clusters and Satellite Galaxies: Companions to the Milky Way,
Duncan A. Forbes, Pavel
Kroupa, Manuel Metz, and Lee Spitler
An interactive model of the Milky Way region lets
the user
investigate, in three dimensions, the locations of some 30 dwarf
satellite galaxies and about 150 globular clusters. |
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Astronomy
in the News
Tracking the source of a meteorite, the challenges of finding
Earth's
twin, and what the color of quasars tells us about the universe
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these are some of the discoveries that have recently made
news in the
astronomical community. |
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The
Society at 120, Bruce
Partridge (President, ASP)
We may be more than a century old, but innovative
programming has
helped transform the Society. |
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Departments
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Editorial, Paul Deans
Where's the Science? |
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First
Word, James G. Manning
Paying
Attention |
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Astronomer's
Notebook, Jennifer Birriel
Origin
of Giant Elliptical Galaxies |
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Planetary
Perspectives, Daniel D. Durda
Cold Water On Global Wildfires? |
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Armchair
Astrophysics, Christopher Wanjek
Galaxies Born Free of Dark Matter? |
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Echoes
of the Past, Katherine Bracher
40 Years Ago: The Age of the Universe |
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Annals
of Astronomy, Clifford J. Cunningham
A Princely Star Catalog |
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Education
Matters, David Bruning
Do We Do Too Much? |
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Societal
Impact, Michael G. Gibbs
The Future of the US Economy |
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Society
Scope/ASP Supporters |
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Sky
Sights, Paul Deans
The
Sky of May, June, and July |
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part of Mercury's transition from a print to a digital
publication, the monthly star maps are no longer available as
individual webpages. Instead, readers of digital Mercury
now have access to Sky & Telescope's online star
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members and institutional
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