What's New - 4th Edition

August 1997

• Mnemonics for Stellar ClassificationAugust 4
• Websites for Starman and Family ExplorerAugust 4

July 1997

• Stanford SOLAR Center July 22
• New Mars LinksJuly 11
• July 4 Mars LandingJuly 1
• NEAR views Mathilde in June 1996 July 1

June 1997

• Virtual StonehengeJune 27
• High-Resolution Background-Radiation ObservationsJune 17

May 1997

• Mini-Comets Hitting the Earth All the Time?May 30
• Eclipse-related World Wide Web SitesMay 29
• Some Comet WWW LinksMay 28
• Galileo Returns New Insights into Callisto and EuropaMay 27
• Expanding Universe: A Classified Search Tool for Amateur AstronomyMay 20

April 1997

• Total Eclipse in Europe on August 11, 1999April 24
• Lesson Plans Based on Hubble Space TelescopeApril 17
• Gamma-Ray Burster Localized April 15
• Hale-Bopp WebpagesApril 15
• Three New Jupiter Activities AvailableApril 9
• A Student Project is Developed April 9

March 1997

• Eclipse reports from the British Astronomical AssociationMarch 31
• Cosmology TutorialMarch 24
• Sky and Telescope Eclipse ReportsMarch 24
• Black Hole simulationsMarch 24
• Project AugerMarch 24
• Stephen Hawking's Homepage March 24
• March 1997 Mars Bulletin March 20
• Keep up with Galileo March 20
• Hubble's Sharpest View of MarsMarch 20
• Russians Plan Mars '96 Spacecraft March 20

February 1997

• Near-Earth AsteroidsFebruary 24
• Pulsar Web SiteFebruary 17
• The Galileo Orbiter and Jupiter's MoonsFebruary 11
• A New Astronomy Web Site in SpanishFebruary 7
• Life on Venus (!)? February 4

December 1996

• Space Telescope Student Lessons AvailableDecember 9
• Planetary Photojournal December 9
• October 12 Eclipse Pages December 5
• New Solar Lab (under construction) December 5
• Asteroid Web SitesDecember 5
• Mars Pathfinder LaunchedDecember 5
• Views of the Solar SystemDecember 2
• Astronomy for Grownups and KidsDecember 2
• AXAF on the WebDecember 2

November 1996

• Lots of Pluto Web Sites November 25
• Pluto ExpressNovember 20
• Cosmic Background Radiation HomepagesNovember 18
• Russian Mars '96 Craft Fails November 18
• The Next Generation Space Telescope November 14
• Astronomy Education SitesNovember 13
• Mars Global Surveyor is LaunchedNovember 8
• SoHO GalleryNovember 5
• Lots of Space NewsNovember 5
• Galileo Results Published November 4

October 1996

• Planetary Science Research DiscoveriesOctober 28
• Galileo Finds High-Altitude Ionisphere at Jupiter's Moon IoOctober 28
• Three Mars Missions to Launch in Late 1996October 28
• Two U. Colorado-Boulder Instruments to Fly on Russian Mars MissionOctober 25
• Interferometry on Stars October 1
• Project Milagro Looks for High-Energy Cosmic RaysOctober 1

September 1996

• Solar Neutrino Homepages September 30
• Solar Eclipse HomepageSeptember 19
• Time and Time ZonesSeptember 18
• ISOCAM Results Released September 9
• Updates on New Planets September 4

August 1996

• Web-Based Interface Allows Students to Create Models of UniverseAugust 30
• Mauna Kea Tour availableAugust 22
• National Science Education Standards now available on lineAugust 22
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• White Light Sunspot ImagesAugust 20
• Life on Early Mars?August 10

July 1996

• New References on Searching for New Planets and LifeJuly 23
• Spectacular Ganymede Images Released (Chapter 12) July 12

June 1996

• Galileo Probe Ganymede Flyby (Chapter 12) June 26
• Galileo's Finger (Chapter 3) June 12
• Tour of the Solar System (Chapter 6) June 10
• Mars Global Surveyor Dons its Scientific Payload (Chapter 11) June 20
• The Why Files (Chapter 17) June 10
• Sunspot Numbers On-Line (Chapter 23) June 10
• Cluster satellites are destroyed (Chapter 23) June 20
• Gravitational Waves On-Line (Chapter 27) June 10
• Hubble's Law Update (Chapter 31) June 12

May 1996

• Keck II Has Been Dedicated (Chapter 4)May 14
• Planetary Science Missions on the World-Wide Web (Chapter 6) May 1
• Solar System Site on WWW (Chapter 6) May 20
• Galileo Probe and Flyby Results Published (Chapter 12) May 15
• NASA'S Galileo finds giant iron core in Io (Chapter 12) May 14
• JPL keeps an archive on Cassini status (Chapter 13) May 20
• Comet Hyakutake Near the Sun (Chapters 17 and 23) May 20
• Luu and Jewitt Review the Kuiper Belt (Chapter 18)May 14
• SETI Institute has Homepage (Chapter 19) May 20
• SoHO first results (Chapter 23)May 15
• World-Wide Web Sites on Solar Physics (Chapter 23)May 15
• Solar Neutrinos (Chapter 24)May 14
• Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project on Hubble (Chapter 31) May 1
• Simulations of Colliding Galaxies (Chapter 31) May 15
• Australia Telescope (Chapter 31) May 20
• Hubble Space Telescope on Track for Measuring the Expansion of the Universe (Chapter 31) May 15

April 1996

• Updated Interpretation of Galileo Probe Results (Chapter 12) April 16
• Pluto has several homepages (Chapter 16) April 2
• Hubble Images Pluto (Chapter 16) April 2
• Comet Hyakutake dazzles the Northern Hemisphere (Chapter 17) April 2
• A Poem about Comet Hyakutake (Chapter 17) April 11
• Reporting Fireballs (Chapter 18) April 10
• The Solar Constant (Chapter 23) April 2
• New Solar Web Sites (Chapter 23) April 2
• SoHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Chapter 23) April 2
• Black Holes (Chapter 28) April 12
• Geminga Distance Measured (Chapter 29) April 15
• Good evidence for the Great Attractor (Chapter 31) April 2
• Infrared Space Observatory maps galaxies (Chapter 31) April 10
• Galaxy Miscellany (Chapter 31) April 17

February 11, 1996

• SAX to be launched (Chapter 4)
• Mars spacecraft of 1996 (Chapter 11)
• NASA's Mars Pathfinder is ready (Chapter 11)
• Early analyses of the Galileo Probe data (Chapter 12)
• Cassini advances (Chapter 13)
• Saturn's Moons: Decreasing the Rate of Growth of Discovery (Chapter 13)
• NEAR to be launched (Chapter 18)
• New planets found (Chapter 19)
• Pulsar planets (Chapter 27)
• "Gravity's Fatal Attraction" (Chapter 28)
• Pinning down gamma ray bursts (Chapter 30)
• Submillimeter satellite to be launched (Chapter 30)
• Debate on the Scale of the Universe (Chapter 31)
• Space VLBI (Chapter 31)
• Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope images galaxies (Chapter 31)
• Nucleosynthesis study (Chapter 34)

January 9, 1996

• A novel on-line astronomy display (Chapter 1)
• Hubble next-generation cameras planned (Chapter 4)
• X-Ray Timing Explorer launched (Chapter 4)
• Infrared Space Observatory launched (Chapter 4)
• Sunspot counter available on-line (Chapter 6)
• GONG On-Line (Chapter 6)
• Galileo pictures: when will they come? (Chapter 12)
• First results from Galileo probe (Chapter 12)
• Galileo arrives! (Chapter 12)
• Cassini Readied (Chapter 13)
• Corrections (Chapter 14)
• Stardust mission to comet planned (Chapter 17)
• Corrections (Chapter 17)
• Corrections (Chapter 18)
• Inexpensive asteroid mission planned (Chapter 18)
• Brown dwarf discovered (Chapter 19)
• SoHO launched (Chapter 23)
• Superstrings (Chapter 34)

November 5, 1995

• Pasachoff observes total eclipses in 1994 and 1995 (Chapter 6)
• NASA plans Mars probe for 1998 (Chapter 11)
• Planet discovered orbiting sun-like star (Chapter 19)
• Ulysses probe update
• Global Oscillation Network Group project now underway (Chapter 23)
• Corrections (Chapter 33)
• Anglo-Australian Observatory images now available on the Web (Astro Pages)

September 10, 1995

• Galileo mission update (Chapter 12)
• Galileo encounters dust storm (Chapter 12)
• New moons discovered around Saturn (Chapter 13)

July 18, 1995

• Update on the Kuiper comet belt (Chapter 18)
• New offering: using the Redshift CD-ROM, by Jay Pasachoff
• Brightest object in the universe turns out to be a mirage (Chapter 31)

May 19, 1995

• Moon's surface found to be less packed than previously thought (Chapter 8)
• Corrections (Chapter 10)
• Galileo mission to Jupiter update (Chapter 12)
• List of coming dates when Saturn's rings can be viewed edge-on (Chapter 13)
• Hubble maps changing weather on Neptune (Chapter 15)
• Hubble WFPC-2 used to image asteroid Vesta (Chapter 18)
• Thermophiles and the origin of life (Chapter 19)
• Corrections (Chapter 22)
• Hundreds of faint galaxies found (Chapter 31)
• Corrections (Chapter 32)
• Updates on several seaches for dark matter in our Galaxy (Chapter 33)

April 4, 1995

• We added a page with ../ordering information. Watch this space for expansion of that service.
• NASA plans Lunar Prospector mission to the Moon (Chapter 8)
• Evidence found for an early generation of stars in the universe (Chapter 22)
• Giant hydrogen halos found around distant galaxies (Chapter 31)

March 6, 1995

• Is a Jupiter required to form an Earth? (Chapter 6)
• Maps of the Moon from Clementine now available on the Web (Chapter 8)
• Lander mission to Mercury planned (Chapter 9)
• IR photo of Jupiter
• Does Europa have an atmosphere? (Chapter 12)
• IR photo of Saturn
• IR photo of Uranus
• IR photo of Neptune
• 2060 Chiron may have opaque atmosphere in parts (Chapter 17)
• How did Shoemaker-Levy change Jupiter? (Chapter 17)
• Kuiper Belt of comets discovered (Chapter 18)
• Upcoming Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission described (Chapter 18)
• Corrections (Chapter 22)
• Correction (Chapter 28)
• Correction (Chapter 29)
• Correction (Chapter 30)
• Images of the Cartwheel Galaxy available from STScI (Chapter 31)
• VLBI Array used to study water maser in NGC 4258 (Chapter 31)
• Diamond jubilee of the Great Debate of 1920 celebrated with a homepage at Goddard Space Flight Center (Chapter 31)
• Top quark discovered (Chapter 34)
• Los Alamos experiment demonstrates that neutrinos have mass (Chapter 34)
• A table of information on the smaller bodies of the solar system (Appendices)
• Element 111 created (Appendices)

February 1, 1995

• Hubble Space Telescope updates_etu4 (Chapter 4)
• Images of collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter available through JPL (Chapter 12)
• Galileo mission updates_etu4 (Chapter 12)
• Gliese 623b, a brown dwarf, discovered (Chapter 20)
• The Hubble constant controversy: high or low? (Chapter 31)
• A surprising lack of host galaxies around quasars found (Chapter 32)
• Element 110 created (Appendices)