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And now, here's your Cosmic Pursuits newsletter for March
2023!
1. Venus and Jupiter meet as March begins, and there are plenty more sky events going on as we move towards the March Equinox. Here's what to see in the Night Sky This Month...
2. I've met many accomplished scientists over the years. This is the story of my meeting the greatest of them all.
3. A hands-on article about how to use modest
backyard equipment to measure stellar parallax, the basis of directly finding the distance to nearby stars.
4. A short video that shows the amazingly complex movement of magnetic fields on the Sun, and which makes our home star look eerily 'alive'.
5. Why science is better than politics.
And the astronomy quotation of the month:
"The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height.
We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries." - Carl Sagan, first paragraph of his 1980 book Cosmos.
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Wishing you clear skies!
Brian
Ventrudo
Publisher
CosmicPursuits.com
