Astronomy 2008 Index

Astronomy 2008 Index

Astronomy Magazine Article Title Index 10 rising stars of astronomy, 8:60–8:63 1.5 million galaxies revealed, 3:41–3:43 185 million years before the dinosaurs’ demise, did an asteroid nearly end life on Earth?, 4:34–4:39 A Aligned aurorae, 8:27 All about the Veil Nebula, 6:56–6:61 Amateur astronomy’s greatest generation, 8:68–8:71 Amateurs see fireballs from U.S. satellite kill, 7:24 Another Earth, 6:13 Another super-Earth discovered, 9:21 Antares gang, The, 7:18 Antimatter traced, 5:23 Are big-planet systems uncommon?, 10:23 Are super-sized Earths the new frontier?, 11:26–11:31 Are these space rocks from Mercury?, 11:32–11:37 Are we done yet?, 4:14 Are we looking for life in the right places?, 7:28–7:33 Ask the aliens, 3:12 Asteroid sleuths find the dino killer, 1:20 Astro-humiliation, 10:14 Astroimaging over ancient Greece, 12:64–12:69 Astronaut rescue rocket revs up, 11:22 Astronomers spy a giant particle accelerator in the sky, 5:21 Astronomers unearth a star’s death secrets, 10:18 Astronomers witness alien star flip-out, 6:27 Astronomy magazine’s first 35 years, 8:supplement Astronomy’s guide to Go-to telescopes, 10:supplement Auroral storm trigger confirmed, 11:18 B Backstage at Astronomy, 8:76–8:82 Basking in the Sun, 5:16 Biggest planet’s 5 deepest mysteries, The, 1:38–1:43 Binary pulsar test affirms relativity, 10:21 Binocular Telescope snaps first image, 6:21 Black hole sets a record, 2:20 Black holes wind up galaxy arms, 9:19 Brightest starburst galaxy discovered, 12:23 C Calling all space probes, 10:64–10:65 Calling on Cassiopeia, 11:76 Canada to launch new asteroid hunter, 11:19 Canada’s handy robot, 1:24 Cannibal next door, The, 3:38 Capture images of our local star, 4:66–4:67 Cassini confirms Titan lakes, 12:27 Cassini scopes Saturn’s two-toned moon, 1:25 Cassini “tastes” Enceladus’ plumes, 7:26 Cepheus’ fall delights, 10:85 Choose the dome that’s right for you, 5:70–5:71 Clearing the air about seeing vs. transparency, 11:75 Cluster crash-up reveals dark matter, 12:26 Comet Hale-Bopp still going strong, 7:25 Coming solar superstorm, The, 9:34–9:39 Cool blue to hot stars, 10:12–10:13 Cool stuff for a hot ride, 9:20 Could changing channels tune into alien civilizations?, 5:38–5:43 Crystal Palace, A, 1:16–1:17 Cygnus Arm flexes its muscle, 9:68 D Dark reserve, 1:25 Darkest sky under the stars, The, 2:64–2:65 Day the Sun crawled, The, 11:14–11:15 “Death star” blasts neighboring galaxy, 4:23 Defect or discovery?, 12:18–12:19 Did ancient astronomers build Stonehenge?, 7:52–7:57 Did molecules from space seed life in the cosmos?, 4:50–4:55 Discover 10 top Milky Way delights, 9:60–9:63 Distant galaxy gets a weigh-in, 1:26 Distant gamma-ray burst sets a record, 5:20 Do cosmic flashes reveal secrets of the infant universe?, 6:34–6:39 Dogging Apophis, 6:25 E Earth flybys reveal mystery speed change, 6:20 Earth impacts at a glance, 1:60–1:61 Earth through alien eyes, 5:23 Earth-forming stars are common in the Milky Way, 6:18 Earth’s troubled adolescence, 5:32–5:37 Easy imaging with the DSI III, 9:64–9:65 Enceladus jets form deep in fractures, 12:23 Encyclopedia galactica, 3:45–3:51 Entire Moon is within reach, 10:26 Europe’s space revolution, 9:28–9:33 Explore Jupiter’s moons, 2:56–2:57 Explore the southern Milky Way’s dark clouds, 9:54–9:57 Exploring a Messier line-up, 8:18 Exploring galaxy evolution, 3:16 Exploring Iapetus’ dark side, 3:60–3:63 Eyepiece ABCs, 1:78 Eyewitness to Apollo 8: A personal memoir, 12:20 F Find your way through the summer sky, 7:70–7:71 First light for Palomar’s new optics, 1:26 Found: the solar system’s oldest rocks, 7:25 G Galactic mergers in cyberspace, 3:30–3:31 Galactic mistaken identity corrected, 10:20 Galaxies on fire, 3:64–3:69 Get a head start on the Hydra, 4:18 Get ready for summer’s total solar eclipse, 7:66–7:69 Giant stars may have little helpers, 6:24 GLOBE at Night 2008, 8:27 Going the distance, 1:25 Google me to the Moon, 6:25 Great quasar round-up, The, 3:20 H Harmony arrives at space station, 2:17 Hide-and-seek galaxy surprises astronomers, 4:23 High-tech skin keeps satellites cool, 12:28 Hinode captures solar “fountains”, 8:27 How astronomers cracked the Einstein code, 9:22–9:27 How comets shaped history, 2:23–2:27 How historic observatories will survive, 4:62–4:63 How life could thrive on hostile worlds, 12:54–12:59 How scientists discovered a solar system “superhighway”/nl, 11:38–11:43 How the Milky Way devours its neighbors, 3:34–3:39 How the Sun will die, 12:38–12:43 How to find a Space Needle in a haystack, 4:20–4:21 How to observe artificial satellites, 6:74 How to observe dark nebulae, 5:64–5:67 How to observe the Sun, 4:64–4:65 How to shoot stars with a webcam, 11:68–11:71 How to take a black hole’s temperature, 12:24 How we junked up outer space, 6:40–6:43 How we’ll fix Hubble, 10:28–10:33 Hubble captures little spot’s demise, 11:22 Hubble finds most distant galaxies yet, 11:19 Hubble gazes at red alien sunsets and “star spots”, 4:22 Hubble identifies exoplanet’s methane, 6:22 Hubble identifies weird “blue blobs”, 5:22 Hubble images interstellar ribbon, 10:24 Hubble peers into a Milky Way starburst, 2:16 Hubble spies Comet Holmes’ heart, 3:18 Hubble uncovers white-dwarf age paradox, 10:20 Hubble’s rising odometer, 12:28 I IAU names a new plutoid, 11:16 India goes to the Moon, 8:26 Inside Arizona’s meteorite treasure chest, 10:80–10:82 Inside Earth’s magnetic shield, 11:52–11:53 Inside NASA’s Deep Space Network, 5:56–5:61 Intense storm triggers Saturn lightning, 8:22 Internal heat drives Jupiter’s weather, 5:21 Is Eta Carinae the brightest star of all?, 11:24 Is there a rover in Hebes Chasma’s future?, 8:24 Is there an end to cosmology?, 8:28–8:29 It’s a Wonderful Star, 12:76 J Journey to the heart of the Milky Way, 2:28–2:33 Jupiter’s new spot, 9:14 K King’s astronomer, The, 8:16 L Life and death of super suns, The, 7:34–7:39 Little meteors pack a big punch, 5:24 Longer-lived oceans on Venus?, 1:27 Lunar crater is older and possibly icier, 12:24 M Magic canvas, The, 9:11 Marinating the news, 7:14 Mars: colder and stiffer inside, 9:20 Mars’ dynamic, icy past, 9:18 Mars Express sees martian “landfill”, 2:17 Mars likely had water, 4:26 Mars shows its shady side, 5:24 Martian probe witnesses avalanches, 6:16 Master the art of wide-field imaging, 6:66–6:69 Meade’s LX90-ACF eliminates coma, 12:70–12:71 Meade’s mySKY teaches you the stars, 2:66–2:67 Meet the colorful Gemini twins, 2:70 Meet the cosmic Cheshire Cat, 10:25 Mercury reveals its hidden side, 5:26–5:31 Merging galaxies come closer to home, 9:16 MESSENGER reveals Mercury’s volcanic past, 10:22 Meteors rock Phobos, 9:48–9:49 Milky Way disarmed, 9:21 Milky Way’s youngest supernova, The, 9:18 Moon clock, 5:23 Moon had water--lots of it, 10:24 MRO finds new signs of a wet early Mars, 11:16 N Naked-eye denizens of the galactic deep, 9:12–9:13 NASA budget woes spare Spirit rover, 6:22 NASA’s lunar sandbox, 6:25 NASA’s new gamma-ray eye in the sky, 6:20 NASA’S Phoenix digs Mars, 9:50–9:53 New findings help explain two-faced Mars, 10:21 New greenhouse solution keeps early Earth warm, 10:26 New ocean eye in orbit, 10:26 New periodic comet found, 1:23 New pictures from old plates, 1:70–1:73 New radio telescope opens for business, 1:26 New space molecule, 7:25 New spin on Moon’s birth, 2:18 New Spitzer mosaic unveils galaxy’s heart, 9:14 New technique peers into dark space clouds, 6:25 North Korea’s phantom space program, 2:20 Northern sky’s top 10 galaxies, The, 11:58–11:61 NTT refines distance to key yardstick stars, 6:23 O Observe celestial odd couples, 1:64–1:67 Observe winter’s forgotten star clusters, 2:60–2:63 Observing the way it was meant to be, 7:62–7:65 Obsession’s new 18-inch scope, 4:68–4:69 Omega Centauri harbors a black hole, 7:22 On the trail of hydrogen’s heavy sibling, 2:34–2:39 Orion capsule prepared for short test flights, 7:23 Orion’s new binocular telescope tested, 3:72–3:73 Orion’s phantom loop, part 1, 2:14–2:15 Orion’s phantom loop, part 2, 3:14–3:15 Other dimensions, 2:12 Our galaxy’s date with destruction, 6:28–6:33 P Peruse the Water Snake’s other half, 5:74 Phoenix powers down, 5:22 Piece of π, A, 11:12 Pit and the Pendulum, The, 10:16–10:17 Pitch from space, A, 8:27 Plenty of nothing, 12:16 Pulsar push, 1:25 Q Quark nova explains record-breaking blasts, 9:20 Quest for the first galaxies, 3:22–3:27 R Radar maps Moon’s south pole in detail, 6:19 Readers report, 6:14–6:15 Reap the awards of amateur astronomy, 4:16 Recipe for a great comet, 2:25 Remembering 2007’s comet double feature, 5:18–5:19 Riding fireballs, 9:16 Ringed planet may have ringed moon, 6:27 Rocket pad for rent, 12:28 Rotating radio star mystery solved, 4:26 Runaway star is not from our neighborhood, 6:25 S Saturn revolution, 10:34–10:39 Saturn’s rings carry extra weight, 1:22 Scientists unearth ancient impact’s secrets, 12:32–12:37 SDSS III begins, 12:28 Searching for the shape of the universe, 4:28–4:33 Seasons change on Neptune, 1:24 See double tonight, 3:74 See the final shuttle fireball, 10:22 See the red star round-up, 10:84 SELENE beams back lunar HDTV, 7:26 Servicing Hubble, 5:23 Sharpest snapshots ever of Pluto’s tiny moons, 2:21 Shortlist for TMT site announced, 9:20 Shuttle legacy, 10:26 Signposts of the sky, 7:16 Six-wheelin’ with NASA’s Moon truck, 7:27 Sky testing Orion’s 102mm f/7 ED, 10:78–10:79 Small galaxies weigh plenty, 8:25 Soap bubbles hint at stormy processes, 8:22 Space Age anniversary, 1:25 Space station robot helpmate goes to work, 6:25 Space-bound robot dives under icy Wisconsin lake, 6:23 Spitzer finds

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