Carolyn Collins Petersen
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Hail and Farewell, Atlantis!
July 8, 2011 | Sky & Telescope‘s premier space-science reporter muses on his long association with the Space Shuttle after witnessing its final launch at 10:29 a.m. EDT on Friday, June 8, 2011. > read more
Will the Webb Telescope Be Canceled?
July 7, 2011 | NASA’s next-generation space observatory is already woefully over budget and behind schedule. But if Congressional money-minders have their way, the project will be killed outright in the months ahead. > read more
Asteroid Flyby Yields New Thinking
July 5, 2011 | When the little asteroid 2011 MD zipped within 8,000 miles of Earth in late June, dynamicists realized they need to change the way they compute such close flybys. > read more
Three Great Old Magazines on DVD
June 21, 2011 | The complete collections of The Sky, The Telescope, and Night Sky magazines are now available as DVD-ROMs. > read more
Sky & Telescope August 2011
June 13, 2011 | Sky & Telescope‘s August 2011 issue is now available to digital subscribers. > read more
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Happy Birthday Neptune!
July 8, 2011 | On Tuesday, July 12th, Neptune will have completed one full circuit around the Sun since its discovery on the night of Sept 23-24, 1846. > read more
Tour July’s Sky by Eye and Ear!
June 30, 2011 | Look low in the west at sunset to spy fleet Mercury, toward southwest for Saturn, and in the south for red-hued Antares, the “rival of Mars.” > read more
Interactive Sky Chart is Unavailable
June 3, 2011 | Our popular Interactive Sky Chart will be unavailable for an indeterminate period. > read more
Saturn’s New Bright Storm
December 27, 2010 | A massive new storm in the ringed planet’s northern hemisphere is bright enough to see in small telescopes. > read more
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This Week’s Sky at a Glance
July 8, 2011 | Mercury hangs low in twilight, the waxing Moon crosses the evening sky, and Saturn and Porrima keep pulling apart. > read more
S&T: Alan MacRobert
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ALCon Meets Under Dark Mountain Skies
July 5, 2011 | With bright stars all night and amateur-astronomical enthusiasm all day, America’s biggest coalition of astronomy clubs held a bang-up annual convention. > read more
Let the Star Parties Begin!
April 14, 2011 | Want to gaze at the Milky Way all night or peer into the eyepiece of a 12-foot-tall telescope? Then escape the city lights and head for the nearest “star party.” > read more
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