Skylights featured on Astronomy Picture of the Day |
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Skylights featured nine times on Earth Science Picture of the Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 -- Full List restored! |
| Go to STARS for previous stars of the week. | Last week's Skylights is still available. | Access Skylights' Archive and photo gallery. | Find out what happened in astronomy at Astronomy Updates. |
| The Constellations has a linked list with locations and brightest stars. | Constellation Maps show the locations of the constellations. | The 151 Brightest Stars lists through magnitude 2.90. | For more on stars and constellations, visit Stellar Stories. |
| Tour the Milky Way as seen from the northern hemisphere. | Watch a total eclipse of the Moon and an annular eclipse of the Sun. | Moon Light presents photos of the Moon. | See the Moon move and pass just below Nu Virginis. |
| Watch planets move against the background stars. | See a classic proof of the curvature of the Earth with a "hull down" series. | Visit Measuring the Sky to learn about the celestial sphere. | Admire sunsets, rainbows, and other sky phenomena in Sunlight. |
| Go from Day Into Night, with 83 linked illustrations. | See the The Aurora and the Midnight Sun. | Take a ride aboard Asteroid 17851 Kaler (1998 JK). | Look for Books about the sky and stars. |
Support science
literacy by joining the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific, an international organization that is
among the world's premier providers of astro education. Get
Mercury and a variety of other benefits. | Presenting three audio courses with 70 to 100-page study guides, narrated and written by Jim Kaler. | ||
| Heavens Above: Stars, Constellations, and the Sky from Recorded Books. | Astronomy: Earth, Sky, and Planets, is available from Recorded Books. | Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe, is also now available from Recorded Books. |
| Astronomy: Earth, Sky, and Planets is published as Vault of the Heavens: Exploring the Solar System's Place in the Universe by Barnes and Noble. | ||
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This wonderfully-rich segment of the Milky Way in Cygnus (roughly 3.5 degrees wide) holds a number of treasures that start with Sadr (Gamma Cygni), then down and to the left the luminous blue variable P Cygni, and at bottom center, the Lambda Bootis/Delta Scuti star 29 Cygni. Reddish interstellar clouds flood the image. The compact open cluster Messier 29 lies near the left edge. |