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• Saturn’s Moon Helene from Cassini

  What’s happening on the surface of Saturn’s moon Helene?
  The moon was imaged in
  unprecedented detail last week as the
  robotic
  Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn
  swooped to within
  two Earth diameters of the diminutive moon.
  Although conventional craters and hills appear, the above raw and unprocessed image also
  shows terrain that appears unusually smooth and
  streaked.
  Planetary astronomers will be inspecting [...]

• Current Events in Astronomy

  
  The science of astronomy goes back as far as man does. Today it is an applied science based on carefully gathering and analyzing data, but there was a time it was little more than charlatan magic. Astronomy is something too many people ignore, but those who keep their eyes on current happenings in astronomy find [...]

• Astronomy: A Beginner’s Guide to the Universe with MasteringAstronomy

  Product DescriptionKey Benefit: For one-semester Introduction to Astronomy courses.   With Astronomy: A Beginner’s Guide, Sixth Edition, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy and awaken readers to the universe around them. Thoroughly updated, the revised edition focuses on the process of scientific discovery and [...]