Now that the March 2009 issue has arrived, we’ve updated Astronomy.com with our newest Web extras to give subscribers exclusive complementary information to the magazine articles. This month, it’s all about the images — from MESSENGER to Cassini and more.
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Here are the highlights:
Senior Editor Richard Talcott shares images from Cassini’s flybys of Enceladus in “Inside Saturn's erupting moon.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick recaps some of Spitzer’s most beautiful and scientifically important images to date in “Explore the Spitzer Space Telescope's greatest scientific hits.”
Senior Editor Richard Talcott explores discoveries from MESSENGER’s second flyby of our innermost planet in “Message from Mercury.”
Associate Editor Liz Kruesi summarizes what scientists have ruled out as the culprits for spacecraft flybys not following predictions in “What can't be causing the gravity anomalies?”
Senior Editor Michael Bakich adds 10 more challenging deep-sky objects to view in “More galaxy groups to observe.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick answers the “Ask Astro” question: “What is the difference between a nova and a supernova?”
Columnist and Contributing Editor Phil Harrington provides a recommended order for completing March’s Messier Marathon with binoculars in “Messier bino-thon finding sequence.”
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 March issue, in addition to “The Sky this Month” and “Ask Astro.”
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