The Spectrogram is the monthly newsletter for S*T*A*R Astronomy. It is published around the beginning of the month, September through June.

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In This Issue

  • President’s Corner
  • Meeting Minutes
  • New Supernova Type
  • First Tatooine Planet
  • Hubble Digs up Galactic Glow Worm
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • In the Eyepiece

In This Issue:

  • September Meeting
  • 2012 Calendar
  • Moon Phases
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • Seeing the birth of the universe in an atom of hydrogen
  • Mystery of dark matter may be near to being deciphered
  • The Kuiper Belt at 20
  • Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies
  • New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars
  • Voyager at 35 - Break on Through to the Other Side
  • Year of the Solar System: Astrobiology - Are We Alone in the Universe?: Got Life?
  • Celestial Events
  • In The Eyepiece

In This Issue:

  • June Meeting
  • 2012 Calendar
  • Moon Phases
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • Star Party
  • May Meeting Minutes
  • Stellar archaeology traces Milky Way's history
  • ASU astronomers discover faintest distant galaxy
  • Hubble shows Milky Way is destined for head-on collision with Andromeda galaxy
  • A pinwheel in many colors
  • Giant black hole kicked out of home galaxy
  • Soviet find of water on the Moon in the 1970s ignored by the West
  • Teenager reportedly finds solution to 350 year old math and physics problem
  • Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula
  • There's more star-stuff out there but it's not dark matter
  • Year of the Solar System : Discovering New Worlds
  • Celestial Events
  • In The Eyepiece 

In this issue:

  • April Meeting
  • 2012 Calendar
  • Moon Phases
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • Transit of Venus
  • Star Explodes, Turns Inside-Out
  • Spiral Galaxy Edge-On
  • Hubble Views Grand Star-Forming Region
  • Observing the Moon
  • Jupiter's Melting Heart
  • New Finding Affects Understanding Of Formation Of The Solar System
  • Black Hole Discovered 12 Million Light Years Away
  • Powerhouse in the Crab Nebula
  • Recycling Galaxies
  • Year of the Solar System: Ice!
  • Celestial Events
  • In The Eyepiece

In This Issue:

  • Star Parties
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • February Meeting Minutes
  • Super Earth Found at Right Distance for Life
  • Two Earth-Size Planets Born of Battered "Jupiter"?
  • Pillars Of Creation Are Gone
  • Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova
  • Hubble reveals a new class of extrasolar planet
  • Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust
  • Astro Apps for i Phone
  • Black Hole Grazing on Asteroids
  • Year of the Solar System: Shadows of the Sun
  • Celestial Events
  • In The Eyepiece

 

In This Issue:

  • February Meeting
  • 2012 Calendar
  • Moon Phases
  • Star Parties
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • New class of planetary systems
  • Origin of thermonuclear supernova discovered
  • Destroyed star was white dwarf
  • A wealth of habitable planets in the Milky Way
  • Hubble zooms in on double nucleus in Andromeda galaxy
  • Calculating what's in the universe from the biggest color 3-D map
  • Chandra Finds Largest Galaxy Cluster in Early Universe
  • Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies
  • Year of the Solar System: Far-Ranging Robots
  • Celestial Events
  • In The Eyepiece

In This Issue:

  • December Meeting
  • 2012 Calendar
  • Moon Phases
  • Star Parties
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • Fear No Supernova
  • Dawn Low Altitude Images of Vesta
  • Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space
  • NASA Developing Comet Harpoon
  • Earth-size Planets Beyond Solar System
  • Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn
  • Fermi Shows That Tycho's Star Shines in Gamma Rays
  • Mapping the "Apollo Zone"
  • Year of the Solar System Evolving Worlds
  • In The Eyepiece

In This Issue:

  • December Meeting
  • 2011 Calendar
  • Moon Phases
  • Star Parties
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • NASA's Hubble Finds Stellar Life and Death in a Globular Cluster
  • Black Hole Birth Announcement
  • Mars Science Laboratory in Good Health
  • Year of the Solar System : Evolving Worlds
  • Celestial Events
  • In the Eyepiece

In This Issue:

  • October Meeting
  • 2011 Calendar
  • Moon Phases
  • Star Parties
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • Comet Elenin Gone and Should Be Forgotten
  • Final Preparations for Nov. 8 Asteroid Flyby
  • Beautiful Red Aurora
  • Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star
  • Year of the Solar System : Magnetospheres: Planetary Shields
  • November 2011 Celestial Events
  • In the Eyepiece

In This Issue:

  • October Meeting
  • 2011 Calendar
  • Moon Phases
  • Star Parties
  • S*T*A*R Membership
  • NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth
  • Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows off for NASA's Cassini
  • NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins New Vesta Mapping Orbit
  • Space Observatory Provides Clues To Creation Of Earth's Oceans
  • Year of the Solar System - Moons and Rings: Our Favorite Things
  • Group Purchase of Royal Astronomical Society Items
  • October 2011 Celestial Events
  • In the Eyepiece

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