Astronomy magazine discount articles

Last week marked the annual UK National Astronomy Meeting (NAM), held each year at a different academic institution. This year, it was the turn of the University of ...

...to simulate satellite constellations, it will take time to understand the effect thousands of additional satellites will have on astronomy at optical and radio wavelengths.” As pointed out, not only will mega-constellations have the potential to cause..., please consider subscribing to ROOM Space Journal to gain immediate and full access to the latest magazine feature articles and receive your own print and/or digital copies of the quarterly ROOM...

... the discovery of pulsars the following year; although it fails to excite the public in the same way as optical astronomy, it continues to provide an ever-expanding window on the universe. As the authors suggest, this book will be... with the occasional photograph, but if you need to know what there is to know about radio astronomy it would seem to fit the bill. Appendices cover Fourier transforms, celestial coordinates, signal digitisation and ...

...technology at the time”, reminds the author – took “several years of additional effort”. Among its contributions to astronomy was the discovery of the first object (designated QB1) in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the ...in protests by native Hawaiians who object to yet another telescope on their ‘sacred mountain’. Anyone who likes astronomy will like this book, and there is even a small space technology element in mentioning the training of Apollo...

... by the images that reached the respective shortlist. The book succeeds on several levels. For anyone interested in astronomy, it’s an obvious hit because it illustrates their subject in an immediate and easily accessible way. And for... the limits of the human imagination as much as scientific research. And that is one of the beauties of astronomy: that it crosses the putative cultural divide between art and science. What was the overall winner...

...the solar system have revolutionised the view of our cosmic backyard. So why republish now? The author – astronomy professor at Cornell and director of Washington’s National Air and Space Museum – tackles the question head on...; and planning. The final 50-odd pages adds appendices, references and an unusual ‘glossary/index’. For an astronomy text it’s a bit short on illustrations, but, as implied above, it’s not really about planets and galaxies...

...a practical and engaging introduction to the subject. ‘Stargazing’ is everything you’d expect from a beginner’s guide to astronomy in a small, dense and very affordable package. Although some will find the white text on a black background... from London, England, and Sydney, Australia. The back cover bills it as, ‘The perfect beginners guide to Astronomy’ and, while one usually takes such publishing hype with a pinch of salt, in this case it’s hard ...