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Here are this issue's highlights:
Associate Editor Liz Kruesi explains Edwin Hubble’s impact on our understanding of the Milky Way in “How a scientist discovered we live in one galaxy among many.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick describes how amateur astronomers can collect valuable data on the Epsilon Aurigae eclipse in “Citizen science and Epsilon Aurigae.”
Contributing Editor Stephen James O’Meara shares a list of observing targets to spook up this fall in “The Ghost Hunt's 109 targets.”
Senior Editor Michael Bakich provides a table of times the Lunar X feature will be visible in the next few years in “See the Lunar X.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick answers the “Ask Astro” question: “What happens to matter that falls into a black hole?”
Caty Pilachowski, Amy Mainzer, and Evalyn Gates answer more questions about their lives and careers in “Astro Confidential: Extending the conversations.”
Of course, we’ve posted “Bob Berman’s Strange Universe,” “Glenn Chaple’s Observing Basics,” “Stephen James O’Meara’s Secret Sky,” and “David Levy’s Evening Stars.” There’s also October’s “The Sky this Month” and five “Ask Astro” questions.