The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 11 November 2019
By Bob Patsiga
In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses:
- NASA publishes striking images of the center of the Milky Way taken by the X-ray space observatory, Chandra.
- Astronomy is featured in this year’s Nobel Prizes in physics.
- This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the first verification of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
- It has been fifty years since NASA sent Apollo 12 to the Moon.
- Advances in interferometry are allowing astronomers to see dynamic processes taking place on the surfaces of stars.
- Astronomical birthdays for the month.
- Celestial happenings to watch for.
- A reminder to turn your clocks back due to daylight savings time ending.
- FAS events and activities for the month.
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