Now that subscribers have the November issue in hand, we’ve updated Astronomy.com with our newest Web extras, which complement the articles you are starting to read (that is, if you haven’t already read the magazine cover-to-cover over the weekend). And this month, we’ve got great examples of all the possibilities online publishing has to offer: text, images, audio, AND video. Here are the highlights of this month's subscriber extras:
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick gives the basics on distinguishing between ordinary rocks and meteorites in “Meteorites and meteorwrongs.”
Senior Editor Richard Talcott publishes an audio clip from his interview with Astronomy Contributing Editor Ray Jayawardhana in “The search for exoplanets.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick introduces Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher Martin Lo’s video animation of the IPS in “Take a trip on the interplanetary superhighway.”
Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich posts 20 more webcam images from Fred Ringwald, associate professor of physics at Fresno State University, in “Stars for all seasons.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick shares more images from the collection of aurora photographer Hinrich Bäsemann in “The northern lights over Norway.”
Senior Editor Francis Reddy answers the Ask Asto question: “Can an observer on Mars see Earth transit the Sun?”
Columnist and Contributing Editor Phil Harrington offers additional binocular targets for observers of The Queen in “Tour additional clusters in Cassiopeia.”
And, of course, we’ve also posted Bob Berman’s strange universe, Glenn Chaple’s observing basics, Phil Harrington’s binocular universe, and Stephen James O’Meara’s secret sky columns for the November issue, in addition to The sky this month and Ask Astro.
For more information on the November issue, visit the online Table of contents. Also, here's a sneak peek from inside the issue.
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