Harry J Augensen
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Night Words for October: Saturn at best and brightest, Venus exits the evening (opens the original)
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• Sun rises at 6:58 a.m. and sets at 6:44 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 7:29 a.m. and sets at 6 p.m. on the 31st Mercury is briefly visible at dusk during the first half of October. It floats low above the western horizon shortly after sunset, never emerging from the twilight glow and setting just 45 minutes after the sun. Mercury reaches greatest evening elongation with the sun on Oct. 12. Afterwards it sinks into the twilight, eventually reachinginferior conjunction — passing between the Eart
Astronomer’s Notebook: Sailing around the Milky Way (opens the original)
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We know today that our sun is one miniscule entity among hundreds of billions of stars that resides in a rotating spiral galaxy — the Milky Way — several thousand light years from its center. And the Milky Way, in turn, is one of innumerable galaxies that inhabit our region of the universe. But how and when did we,over the centuries, arrive at this conclusion? In the 1500s, Copernicus declared the sun, not the Earth, to be the center of the universe, or what was then known as the universe. Not q
Night Words for September: Venus, Saturn rule the evening, Mars and Jupiter the morning (opens the original)
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• Sun rises at 6:29 a.m. and sets at 7:33 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:57 a.m. and sets at 6:45 p.m. on the 30th Mercury has a poor evening appearance this September. It hovers very low above the western horizon shortly after sunset but never emerges from the twilight glow. At best, Mercury sets just 45 minutes after the sun at month’s end. Since January, Venus the Evening Star has beamed like a yellow gem in the western sky at dusk, and late this month it attains its peak brightness. Over t
Astronomer’s Notebook: Vera Rubin and the hunt for dark matter (opens the original)
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in December 1965, for the first time, a woman was permitted to use the Mount Palomar 200-inch telescope, which had begun operations in 1948 and was then the largest telescope in the world. That woman was 37-year-old Vera Rubin, an astronomer who was destined to confirm the existence of an invisible substance called dark matter which makes up over 90% of all the mass in our universe. Her story is one of inspiration and triumph over obstacles of gender bias. Born in Philadelphia on July 23, 1928,
Night Words for August: Perseid Meteor Shower and a near-total lunar eclipse (opens the original)
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• Sun rises at 6:00 a.m. and sets at 8:15 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:28 a.m. and sets at 7:34 p.m. on the 31st Venus, the brilliant Evening Star, beams with a yellowish radiance in the west at dusk. Venus continues to brighten during the month of August as the distance between it and Earth decreases day by day. Venus reaches its greatest eastern (evening) elongation with the sun on the 15th. Yet, Venus is setting earlier each night: nearly two hours after sunset at the beginning of August,
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