Star Observer

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Star Observer

description Astronomy magazine
Area of ​​Expertise astronomy
language German
publishing company SRO publishing house
First edition 1991
attitude 2005
Frequency of publication per month
editor Manfredo Iazzetta, Gabriele Iazzetta-Artner, b. Husner
Article archive ISSN  1605-4601

Star Observer was an astronomy magazine from Austria . The magazine appeared 12 times a year and contained topics from astronomy , science fiction , cosmology and space travel .

The first edition appeared in 1991. After the September 2005 edition, it was discontinued. In his last editorial, the editor of the Star Observer, Manfredo Iazzetta, recommended Astronomie heute to its readers . The magazine was 132 pages long and was characterized by rich illustrations . In addition to the regular editions, there were special editions at irregular intervals in which the entire issue was devoted to a single topic.

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output subjects
1992 No. 3 Christian Doppler, Institute for Astronomy at the University of Vienna, The TNG-3.5, meter mirror, When the sun dies, Two planets orbit a star, What was Stonehenge really for ?, VV Cephei - Giants in space, 60 years of radio astronomy, glossary : Sun
1993 No. 1 Meteorites, Hubble Telescope, The Astronomy of the Oceanians, New Distances to Galaxies, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Are We Alone in the Universe ?, The Astronomy of the Oceanians, The Star of Bethlehem, The Supernova SN 1992 ap
1994 No. 1 When astronomy separated from astrology, Mars, what happens when galaxies collide ?, solar myths and solar cults of the peoples, X-rays in star clusters NGC 6624, dance of the planets
1995 No. 1 How the atoms came into the world, Rosat et al. XMM see space in X-rays, thoughts about life in the universe, Russian Mars mission
1996 No. 4 News: boulders or heaps of rubble? (Asteroids), puzzling double crater, vibrating neutron star, iron Jupiter moon Io, planet at 55 Cancri, alarm from space - gamma rays, the Alpha space station, crab nebula - mysterious and dynamic, shuttle mission STS 76, expansion speed of the universe, expert dispute over X-ray hyacutake
1997 No. 2 News: New start of the ARIANE 5, space monkey died, Phoenix from the ashes (cluster satellites), SOHO is 500 days in space, space station Alpha is flourishing, cosmic messengers: Comet, Alan Hale, The Lagoon Nebula, Mission STS 80 , The new phase of the moon, STS 82 mission: Hubble repair, Carl Sagan's life's work, information about Hale-Bopp
1998 No. 1/2 News: Pathfinder retires, Galileo finds the remains of a volcano on Io, Europe's Mars visions, X-33 is revving up, IUE - a piece of eternity, dust in Berenike's hair, puzzles about wormholes, giants with faster than light speeds ?, In the clouds of Jupiter , Cassini-Huygens: Departure to the world of puzzles
1999 No. 4 News: plane to Mars, cosmic traffic jam in Andromeda, first cluster satellite is ready, Hubble needs third aid, Russian moon does not shine, helicopter rocket being tested, Japanese "hope" is delayed (Mars probe Nozomi)
2000 No. 1/2 News: Planets are “hailing”, cannibalism in the Milky Way, Mars Polar Lander is lost, How heavy are black holes ?, Mercury - the slightly different sunspot, Leonids shower over Europe, Nova discovered in the constellation of eagles, What do you see in the Lunar eclipse?
2001 No. 1/2 News: First pictures from Terra camera ASTER, star birth in dark cloud "RCW 108", new minni Plutos discovered, VLT weighs dark matter, Sirius A u. B in X-ray light, XMM explains the X-ray background, Jupiter's storms unite, sea of ​​light versus ecosystem, puzzles about volcano: a planet between sci. u. Fic. (Star Trek)
2002 No. 1/2 News: Is our civilization threatened by asteroids ?, "Oxygen bomb" G292.0 + 1.8, In the heart of a dark sun puzzle (sunspots), Active volcanoes on Mars ?, Afterglow of a cosmic catastrophe (gamma rays), Genesis in equilibrium, Star deathlive - the birth of a planetary nebula, Europe, settlement plan, researchers examine Yucatan crater, Hubble: The play of light in the heavenly peacock's eye, David Hardy, energy of the black holes, Sci Fic: Power on, images: moon / NGC 2392
2003 No. 1/2 News: Moon (modified Newtonian dynamics) and dark matter, puzzles about the "little" big bang, New Planet discovered, The Secret of V838 Monocerotis, NGC 3310, stirred but not shaken, Sun, the mysterious double flare, Cassini's new picture from Saturn, a galaxy and two black holes, the future of space travel, Hubble: micro quasar GRO J 1655-40, tree seeds “flew” with Apollo to the moon, world of images ... and the stars are allowed to come, what do I find in the Taurus constellation, Milky Way clouds, gas chimneys and galactic Föntän, secrets in infrared, images of an invisible cosmos, Centaurus A.
2004 No. 1 News: HD 192163, the beginning of the end, green minerals on Mars, astronomers in "spot fever", laser pistol for Keck, Canis Major the nearest galaxy, a 3D map of the universe, radiation from the black hole, when the sun is raging , The universe - a soccer ball?
2005 No. 1 News: Phobos in the spotlight, but still hope for Pluto, visit from the halo of the galaxy, mysterious baby planet, Sofia - the flying observatory, hen or egg, in the delivery room of the stars, does it stink on Mars ?, world of images: listening in the cosmos, ESA News: centrifuges and Snow White coffins, shadows over Jupiter, three eclipses at the same time, irregular dwarf galaxies, Uranus: where the weather hits capers, New Horizons 2, new horizon for Uranus, Smart 1, with the power of ions for Moon, black holes, observation in visible light, countdown to landing on Titan, dark matter, the dark side of the galaxy NGC 4555, new image of NGC 891
Special editions (selection)
Special edition theme
number 1 Mars
No. 2 Big Bang
No. 3 Are we alone in space?
No. 4 Solar eclipse 99
No. 5 Apocalypse
No. 6 millennium
No. 7 Planets
No. 8 Science & fiction
No. 9 Galaxies

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.wissenschaft-online.de/artikel/790733