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On the cover: Hubble's Successor? A design concept for NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope by TRW. (NASA/GSFC)
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March/April 1998
Spring is a time for fresh beginnings, so with that in mind, we've freshened up our Star Charts on pages 12 and 13. They've been reformatted according to suggestions many of you submitted in our recent reader survey. You'll notice the most change near the edges of the charts. We changed their projection so constellations near the horizon dont appear so distorted as they had on previous charts. We hope the changes improve the way you use them. Either way, please let us know.
The Next Space Telescope
And finally, the future for examining such areas of the universe, as well as many others, is bound to improve in the coming years as NASA prepares to launch the successors to Hubble Space Telescope — the Next Generation Space Telescope and the Space Interferometry Mission.
The Milky Way's Dark Heart
One area of distortion in the sky that we can't do anything about is the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. New research seems to confirm what astronomers have suspected for years. The researchers measured the unusually high velocities of stars near the galactic center. Only a massive black hole could exert the gravitational influence that causes these stars to behave so strangely, executive editor Damond Benningfield explains.
The Next Space Telescope
And finally, the future for examining such areas of the universe, as well as many others, is bound to improve in the coming years as NASA prepares to launch the successors to Hubble Space Telescope — the Next Generation Space Telescope and the Space Interferometry Mission.
AstroNews: An asteroid's big splash; planetary disks
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