Astronomy

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Astronomy

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ASTRO LETTERS

JWST HUNTS FOR ROGUE WORLDS • These planet-sized objects may give clues to how stars form.

HOT BYTES

NASA CANCELS FULLY BUILT MOON ROVER, STUNNING SCIENTISTS • The VIPER rover was meant to be a key scouting mission ahead of NASA’s Artemis program.

HUBBLE SEES HYDROGEN

QUICK TAKES

Scientists identify dinosaur-killer asteroid

Weighing a middling-mass black hole

MARS MAY HOST OCEANS’ WORTH OF BURIED WATER

A celestial transference phenomenon • Explore the power of conjunctions.

RENAMING THE Hubble constant • Vesto Slipher was not as well known as Edwin Hubble. But his groundbreaking observations helped uncover one of astronomy’s most fundamental relationships, and he deserves equal credit.

EINSTEIN’S ROLE

HOW SPECTROSCOPY WORKS

Appraising the Origin Home Observatory • Celestron continues to lead the way in developing state-of-the-art smart telescopes and opening doors for anybody to become an astrophotographer in seconds.

DECEMBER 2024 Jupiter at its best • THE SOLAR SYSTEM’S CHANGING LANDSCAPE AS IT APPEARS IN EARTH’S SKY.

RISING MOON • Sunrise scarp

METEOR WATCH • Low chances

STAR DOME

PATHS OF THE PLANETS

COMET SEARCH • Soaring in sinking Aquila

LOCATING ASTEROIDS • Sharing the chariot

A BLAST FROM THE PAST • JWST changes the debate on what created the Crab Nebula.

THE MOON as it never was • Despite having the wrong ideas about how the Moon’s craters formed, these 19th-century astronomers created highly accurate plaster models.

Gaze into the eyes of the BULL • From famous star clusters to spectacular nebulae, Taurus is bursting with deep-sky objects to explore.

Examining Galileo’s TOES • Transits, occultations, eclipses, and shadow transits of the jovian moons are perfect events for telescopic viewing.

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Dark matter’s influence

READER GALLERY

WHERE’S THE REST OF ME?

2025 Astronomy’s Guide to the Night Sky

Venus dazzles at dusk

STAR DOME