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More than
Just a Planet, It's a Meal, Eric Sandquist
Can a star swallow a planet? the extrasolar planets discovered
over the past two years display an odd range of characteristics
- from their moasses to the size and shape of their orbits.
Andy they just may offer us clues to stellar diets. |
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What to Do in a Big Lecture Class,
Besides Lecture? Douglas Duncan
Sure, students may be able to pass an exam, but do they really
get useful knowledge and skills from astronomy classes? Quite
often no, but there are ways to challenge them, to teach them,
and to show them the beauty of the science. |
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Why
and How to Observe Binary Stars Tonight, Claud H. Sandberg Lacy
The Universe is full of them - it seems to prefer them, in fact.
Binary stars are of great interest to professional and amateur
astronomers alike, and just a little information seems to make
them even neater objects for study. |
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Life On The Mountain: An Astronomical
Family Scrapbook of Mount Wilson Observatory, Don Nicholson
and Scott W. Teare
Working at a mountain-top observatory involves long hours at
the telescope. But life goes on outside the dome, too. |
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Departments
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Editorial,
James C. White II
2001
is just around the corner |
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Letters
to the Editor |
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Echoes
of the Past, Katherine Bracher
Volcanism on the Moon? |
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Education Newswire,
Leo P. Connolly
Astronomy information for educators. |
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Accidental Astrophysics, Eric M. Schlegel |
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Astronomer's Notebook, Christopher
J. Conselice, with a sidebar by Jennifer Birriel
NASA's Origins program |
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SkyChart and SkyTalk, Robert A. Garfinkle |
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World
Beat, Dmitri Yu. Klimushkin
Astronomy in Siberia |
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Last
Page, Duncan A. Forbes
Tips for good astronomy lectures |
