| |  | Tony Rowell | | | | Geminid meteor shower peaks under dark skies Break out the blanket and the lawn chair. This year’s Geminid meteor shower will be a gem. When the shower peaks December 14, as many as 120 meteors an hour will be visible at sites free from city lights. | | | |  TMT Collaboration | Hawaii Supreme Court revokes permit for massive telescope Native Hawaiians have won their court challenge against an observatory that could one day be the world's largest. | |  NASA/JPL-Caltech | NASA returns to Jupiter 20 years after Galileo The Juno spacecraft meets the gas giant July 4, finally ending the decades-long hiatus of Jupiter missions. | | | |
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| | | | | | January 2016 Issue Preview Video Watch Editor David J. Eicher share highlights from the January Issue of Astronomy magazine. This month's issue counts down the biggest space stories of 2015, recaps Dawn's exploration of dwarf planet Ceres, reviews the life and times of Stephen Hawking, and more. | | | | | |
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| |  | THE REAL REALITY SHOW How large is the universe? | |  | SEASONAL OBSERVING Easy-to-Find Objects in the 2015 Winter Sky | |  | SUPERSTARS OF ASTRONOMY Seth Shostak: Life in the universe | | | |
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| |  | Tony Rowell | | | | | December sky highlights The parade of morning planets — Venus, Mars, and Jupiter — continues during December, but the month’s highlight comes on the 14th when the prolific Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Astronomy magazine subscribers have access to the complete version of December's The Sky this Month at Astronomy.com. To learn about other daily sky events, visit The Sky this Week. | |  | Observing Podcast December 10 - 17 -
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| |  | How Lisa Pathfinder will “hear” the universe The European Space Agency hopes its LISA Pathfinder mission will allow scientists to observe the universe outside the electromagnetic spectrum for the first time. | |  | DAVE’S UNIVERSE Dave Eicher’s “The New Cosmos” published Astronomy magazine’s editor-in-chief’s new book offers new thoughts on “hot topics” of astrophysics, cosmology, and planetary science. | | | |
| |  | The best Geminid shower photos The Geminids under Jupiter (M31) Amirreza Kamkar perfectly framed this photo of Jupiter and the rocks of Tandis Valley in Qeshm, Iran. Then, he waited for the Geminids to arrive. | |  | PICTURE OF THE DAY The Horsehead and the Flame Dean Salman captured this stunning scene from Tucson, Arizona. | |  | SUN AND MOON GALLERY Occultation of Venus by the Moon User Phillymanjaro made this sequence of the Moon passing in front of Jupiter on December 7 from 9 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. | | | | | |
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