How do spacecraft avoid collisions in the asteroid belt?
Back to Article List From the December 2024 issue The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ...
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What happened to the jettisoned Apollo lunar modules?Â
Back to Article List From the December 2024 issue All but one of the Apollo program’s used lunar modules either ...
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The Red Planet lights up a famous star cluster this month
The conjunction of Venus and the Beehive was a beautiful, if not dazzling, sight as seen from the author’s home ...
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The best deep-sky targets in Taurus
NGC 1514 The Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514) was discovered by German-born English astronomer William Herschel in 1790. Credit: Eric ...
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Time magazine Person of the Year 2024: Stunning Leak! Time Magazine’s most coveted secret has been ruined; 2024’s Person of the Year has been leaked and it’s Donald Trump todayheadline
Every year Time magazine keeps its 'Person of the Year' award a closely guarded secret but a recent leak has ...
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The Moon as it never was
In 1865, pioneer of astronomical photography Lewis M. Rutherfurd captured some of the higher quality photos of the Moon at ...
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Presenting the Celestron Origin Home Observatory
The Origin captures multiple hues of the hydrogen gas and dust within the emission nebula M8, also known as the ...
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What’s in the southern sky this month?
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Space Telescope Science Institute You don’t want to miss Jupiter this month. The giant planet ...
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Is it time to rename the Hubble constant?
Slipher’s spectral measurements of the Andromeda and Sombrero spiral nebulae, as they were called at the time, showed these objects ...
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Does dark matter affect our solar system?
Back to Article List From the December 2024 issue Dark matter does pervade the solar system like an invisible fog. ...
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