Now that the December issue has been mailed out, we’ve updated Astronomy.com with our newest Web extras that give subscribers complementary information to the articles in the magazine. This month, we have a cool video of some extreme organisms; some great images of both land and sky from Athens, Greece; and an in-depth look at an image from “Reader gallery.”
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Here are this month’s highlights:
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick shares a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution video about the extremophile ecosystems of the hydrothermal vents along the Galápagos Rift in “See extremophiles on Earth.”
Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich picks 10 more celestial images from astroimager Anthony Ayiomamitis and takes a trip through Athens with Editor David J. Eicher in “Great shots from modern Greece.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick answers the “Ask Astro” question: “Ever wonder why Mars is red?”
Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich guides you through an image of the region around Antares that we published in December’s “Reader gallery” (pages 86 and 87) in “Finding your way through our colorful galaxy.”
Columnist and Contributing Editor Glenn Chaple talks about practical homes for your observing equipment in “Sensible housing for your telescope.”
Columnist and Contributing Editor Phil Harrington helps you track the appearance of variable star Mira in “Estimating Mira's magnitude.”
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 December issue, in addition to “The sky this month” and “Ask Astro.”
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