On the cover: This composite image of the Horsehead Nebula was captured in three photos by the Kueyen Telescope located at Cerro Paranal in Chile. Kueyen is one of the four telescopes that make up European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Here, red denotes hydrogen gas, brown denotes dust, and blue-green represents scattered starlight.
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May/June 2002
The May/June issue brings you Armchair Voyages Through Space and Time. These suggestions for summer reading include excerpts from Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell (Bantam Dell 2001), Neil F. Comins' Heavenly Errors (Columbia University Press 2001) and J. Richard Gott's Time Travel in Einstein's Universe (Houghton Mifflin Co. 2001).
The AstroNews column reports the latest findings of water on Mars from the Odyssey spacecraft, the make-up of the Moon’s interior (hint: not green cheese), the acceleration of the universe’s expansion, and the recent violent activity of volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io. And as always, we bring you two month's worth of stargazing information and star charts.
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