Now that the January 2009 issue is in the mail, we’ve updated Astronomy.com with our newest Web extras that give subscribers exclusive complementary information to the magazine articles. This month, we preview some stories to look for in 2009, explore a recent survey of the Milky Way, and offer PDF of the van den Bergh catalog to download.
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Here are the highlights:
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick previews some upcoming headlines in 2009 — from the International Year of Astronomy to the Mars Science Laboratory — in “Space and astronomy stories to watch for in 2009.”
Senior Editor Richard Talcott explains the importance of the recent Milky Way survey image from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) and the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer Inner Galactic Plane Survey (MIPSGAL) in “A glimpse of the Milky Way.”
Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich provides a PDF of Sidney van den Bergh’s catalog of reflection nebulae in “The van den Bergh catalog.”
Associate Editor Daniel Pendick answers the “Ask Astro” question: “Do galaxies have magnetic fields?”
Columnist and Contributing Editor Glenn Chaple shares his goals for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy in “Glenn Chaple’s 2009 astronomy resolutions”
Columnist and Contributing Editor Phil Harrington offers a binocular calendar for the first half of the New Year in “2009 celestial events to observe.”
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 January issue, in addition to “The Sky this Month” and “Ask Astro.”
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