Now that the February 2009 issue should be in-hand, we’ve updated Astronomy.com with our newest Web extras that give subscribers exclusive access to supplementary information to the magazine articles. This month, we offer insight into planet formation, dark energy, weird cosmic explosions, and more.
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Here are the highlights:
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick shares a video of Hubble Space Telescope scientist Howard Bond talking about his exciting observations of the star V838 Monocerotis’ light echoes in “Observing a bizarre stellar outburst.”
Associate Editor Liz Kruesi explains how ground and space-based future detectors may give astronomers the information they need to determine what dark energy is in “Future experiments to probe dark energy.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick provides a video animation of a gap forming in a dusty disk around a star in “How protoplanets create gaps in dusty disks.”
Senior Editor Michael Bakich picks some of our favorite images of M81 and M82 from our online collection in “M81 and M82 on display.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick answers the “Ask Astro” question: “How many planets have been discovered beyond Pluto?”
Columnist and Contributing Editor Phil Harrington offers additional binocular targets in Monoceros to uncover this month in “More Winter Triangle treasures.”
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 February issue, in addition to “The Sky this Month” and “Ask Astro.”
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