The November 2009 issue of Astronomy should be in your mailbox any day now (if it’s not already in your hands), and we’ve updated Astronomy.com with our newest web extras to give subscribers exclusive information complementary to the issue.
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Here are this issue's web extras for magazine subscribers:
Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich explores a key technology that will help the Altair Lunar Lander set down successfully on the Moon in “Leading Altair to the Moon.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick provides an animation depicting the small gas cloud Jay McNeil discovered while imaging M78 in “Zoom in on McNeil's Nebula.”
Author Alan Goldstein suggests more galactic train wrecks to observe in “The ‘second 10’ interacting galaxies.”
Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich shares five videos from his trip to view the July 22, 2009, total solar eclipse in “Michael Bakich goes to China.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick answers the “Ask Astro” question: “What would the Sun's rays do to Earth if the ozone layer were no longer present?”
Mario Livio, Kim Weaver, and Chuck Steidel provide more insight into their lives as astronomers in “Astro Confidential: Extending the conversations.”
Of course, we’ve also 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 are also November’s “The Sky this Month” and five “Ask Astro” questions.