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May 2010 Eyepiece


  • A Neutrino’s Encounter with a Terrestrial Detector

    By Gerceida Jones

  • Lee Baltin is Dead at 90

     

  • What’s Up - The Sky for May 2010

    By Tony Hoffman

  • One Last Good View of Mars

    By Joseph A. Fedrick

  • A Message from AAA President Richard Rosenberg

     

  • AAA’s May 7 Lecture to Train a Lens on Astrophotography

     

  • Recent-Advances Seminar: Diverse Topics, Diverse Attendees

    By Jason Kendall

  • Fort Tryon Lights Shielded for AAA

    By Anne Kiefer

  • What to Know in Buying Scope Batteries and Accessories

    By George Hripcsak

  • Obama Outlines New Space Goals

     

  • A Grand Tour of the Solar System, from the Moon to Pluto

    By Evan Schneider

  • The Future May Not Be Bleak—Let’s Regreen Earth

    By Greg Matloff

  • Why Nebulae around Massive Stars Don’t Disappear

     

  • Review: How We—and the Universe—Might End

    By Lynn Darsh

  • Briefs: Venus Has Had Recently Active Volcano Hotspots

    Briefs: Venus Has Had Recently Active Volcano Hotspots
    Galaxy Births Stars 100 Times Faster than Milky Way

  • AAA Annual Meeting May 19

     


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