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Astronomy on the Streets, Julieta Fierro
The streets of developing nations
are teeming with homeless children. Abandoned by their families
and by society, are they to be abandoned by astronomy educators,
too? |
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That Personal Touch, Kristine M. Larsen
NASA is taking astronomy education
seriously enough to invent new jargon for it. Leverage means
the agency wants astronomers to be developing curricula and
support materials rather than, as they are increasingly doing,
visiting classrooms. But this approach goes against one of the
most important trends of astronomy in the 1990s. |
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Seeing Is Believing, Mars A. Rodríguez
and Marco A. Moreno-Corral
At a cloudy, blustery site, a
multimillion-dollar, multi-meter telescope might as well be
pointing down. At least there would be ants to watch. But at
a clear, steady site, a modern ground-based telescope can outdo
the Hubble Space Telescope. With a sidebar by Christopher D.
Koresko. |
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Bursting Onto the Scene, Peter S. Conti
Let two galaxies kiss (through
gravity, of course) and the next thing you know, there are babies
(stars, naturally) all over the place. What goes for NGC 1741,
a galactic shotgun marriage if ever there were one, probably
went for our galactic forbears, too. |
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Departments
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Editorial,
George S. Musser
What gives? |
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Letters to the Editor |
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Society News - The 1997 ASP award winners |
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Echoes of the Past, Katherine Bracher
The solar corona: It's hot. The
solar surface: It's not. So how can what's not hot make what's
hot hot? |
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World
Beat: Hong Kong, George
S. Musser
Kung hei fat choi! It is the Year
of the Ox, and of uncertainty in Hong Kong--for astronomers
as everyone else. |
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Newswire, Leo P. Connolly
So much to teach, so little time;
do research on Mir. |
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Black
Holes to Blackboards,
Jeffrey F. Lockwood
You can bemoan interest in astrology.
Or you can exploit it as a way to demonstrate what "science"
is. |
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Guest
Observer, James C. White
II
Observing Mars. This month's column
also features a report on Saturn observing by astronomy students
in Moorpark, Calif. |
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SkyChart and SkyTalk, Robert A. Garfinkle |
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Book Review, Arno F. Granados
Cosmic Questions by Richard Morris.
The Three Big Bangs by Philip M. Dauber and Richard A. Muller.
The Cyclical Serpent by Paul Halpern. Perspectives in Astrophysical
Cosmology by Martin Rees. The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen
W. Hawking and Roger Penrose. The Inflationary Universe by Alan
Guth. |
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Last Page, Timothy Brooke
An acrostic puzzle |
