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Galaxy Family Portrait
September 6, 2012 | The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a family portrait of a pair of galaxies in the nearby Virgo galaxy, where a huge elliptical galaxy dwarfs its spiral sibling. > read more
Universe is Still Missing its Lithium
September 5, 2012 | New observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud have only heightened the mystery surrounding a decades-long cosmic conundrum: why does the universe have so much less lithium than astronomers think it should? > read more
Dawn Bids Vesta Adieu
September 6, 2012 | With a gentle, constant nudge from its ion-propulsion system, NASA’s asteroid explorer has departed its first target and begins a 2½-year cruise to the second one. > read more
Charting a Course for Heliophysics
September 7, 2012 | A new report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences examines how studies of the Sun and its influence on Earth have advanced in the past decade and makes recommendations for what should be tackled next. > read more
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How to See Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 QG24
September 7, 2012 | A fair-sized chunk of rock will pass unusually close to Earth this week. Asteroid 2012 QG42, estimated to be about 800 feet across, will be 1,770,000 miles (2,860,000 km) away at its closest approach on the night of Thursday–Friday, September 13–14. > read more
Tour September’s Sky by Eye and Ear!
August 31, 2012 | Some of this month’s sky sights are low down along the horizon: Saturn and Mars in the west after sunset, the first-quarter Moon in the south, and Jupiter when it rises around midnight in the east. > read more
S&T: Dennis di Cicco
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William E. Shawcross, 1934–2012
September 6, 2012 | Sky & Telescope’s former publisher, company president, and long-time managing editor, William E. (Bill) Shawcross, died unexpectedly on September 3rd. He was 77. > read more
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This Week’s Sky at a Glance
September 7, 2012 | Jupiter and Aldebaran embrace the rising last-quarter Moon, then it’s Venus’s turn with a one-on-one Moon pairing. Meanwhile, the stars of the evening are unmistakably turning toward fall. > read more
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