On the Cover: Thousands of young stars have formed amid the beautiful gas and dust of the Orion Nebula in the last 10 million years. The nebula lies in Gould's Belt, a giant ring of massive stars and starbirth regions in the Milky Way.
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July/August 2005
Well-known astronomy writer Ken Croswell returns to StarDate magazine with his feature about Gould's Belt, a Ring Around the Sky that harbors some of the Milky Way's best known features. And Leila Belkora explains how, starting three millennia ago, Pacific Islanders used a combination of celestial navigation, knowledge of the natural world, and "dead reckoning" to spread their culture over one-third of the globe in Steering by the Stars.
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Carolyn Collins Peterson describes developments in telescope technology that are opening new realms in astronomy. Bradford Behr chimes in with tips to enhance your backyard stargazing, including how to easily measure angles on the sky.
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