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Reflections on the 100 Year Anniversary
of The War of the Worlds: A Frontier and Literary History of
Mars, Ryder W. Miller
Our understanding and perspective of Mars has changed over the
last 100 years. It is no longer a fearful unknown. It has become
a frontier, for the meantime still out of reach, but perhaps
still vulnerable to our predispositions. |
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The Hyades -
So Close, and Now, So Familiar, Anthony G. A. Brown
Because of its proximity the Hyades cluster has always played
a central role in astronomy. It forms the first rung on the
ladder of the distance scale of the universe and provides astronomers
with an excellent laboratory for testing their theories of stellar
structure and evolution. |
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Astronomy
in the Classroom: The Telescope's in Education Program at Mount
Wilson Observatory, Scott W. Teare
Wishing for a large, sophisticated telescope for their students
or even themselves to use is an irrational desire for many teachers.
Isn't it? And even if such an instrument were available, how
would they be able to use it without having to travel to a remote
site with clear, dark skies? |
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The X-rays From Cassiopeia's Lap, Myron
Smith
We sometimes find ourselves putting square pegs into round holes,
trying to force an object into a morphological class because
it almost fits. This is what seems to have happened in a rather
erring but honest way in our attempts to explain the nature
of the bright, unusual star gamma Cassiopeia. |
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Departments
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Editorial,
James C. White II
Borders |
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Letters to the Editor |
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Society
News, The 1998 ASP award winners |
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Black Holes
to Blackboards, LuAnn Dahlman
Visualizing the rotating Earth |
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Echoes of the Past, Katherine Bracher
The existence of other planetary systems |
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Accidental Astrophysics, James C. White
II
The nature of the magnitude scale |
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Education
Newswire, Leo P. Connolly
Astronomy information for educators. |
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SkyChart and SkyTalk, Robert A. Garfinkle |
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Research Review, Brian K. Pickett
How does a star get a companion? |
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Book
Review, Chris D. Impey
The Origin and Evolution of the Universe, edited by Ben
Zuckerman and Matthew Malkan.Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics,
edited by John Bahcall and Jeremiah Ostriker. |
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Last
Page, Stephanie A. Graves
No clocks? No way. |
