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Selected Articles I Have Written

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please do not download, reproduce, or distribute. 

 

Life on Epsilion Eridani

Life may be emerging at a nearby star

 

Beyond Hubble

A look at the far future replacement telescope for Hubble that could be constructed on the Moon

 

 

Sixteen New Exotic Planets

A Hubble space Telescope survey uncovers exotic worlds

 

 

Lucifer Planet

a planet with molten lava oceans?

 

 

 

 

"Creating Hubble's Technicolor Universe"


This article I co-authored with Zoltan Levay discusses the colorization of Hubble images. The article appeared in the September 2002 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine (Copyright 2002, Sky Publishing Corp.), and is made available on this Web site by permission of the publisher. (Adobe Acrobat format)

 

Kid's Discover

 

 

Astrophysicists Challenged by Dark Energy

 

Rocket Engines of the Future

 

The Oldest Life Form

 

Other Articles

 

“Do Asteroids Have Moons”

Star & Sky, June 1980

 

“The Incredible Shrinking Universe”

Star & Sky, June 1980

 

“From Idea to Observation, the Space Telescope at Work,”

Astronomy, June 1989

 

“The World’s Biggest Star Catalog,”

            Sky and Telescope,  December 1989

 

“The Science Mission of the Hubble Space Telescope,”

Vistas of Astronomy, February 1990

 

“The Hubble Space Telescope: Problems and Solutions,”

Mercury, October 1990

 

“Galaxies: Building Block of the Universe,”

             Odyssey Magazine, May 1995

 

“From Failure to Fame, the Hubble Space Telescope,”

             Modern Astronomy,  June 1997

 

“Space Telescope,”

McGraw Hill 1998 Science and Technology Yearbook

 

            “Hubble’s Technicolor Universe”

            Sky and Telescope Magazine, October 2001

 

“Unveiling the Dark Universe”

Astronomy Magazine, November 2002

  

“The Local Group: Our Universe in a Nutshell”

Astronomy Magazine, November 2003

 

“The Genesis Planet”

Astronomy Magazine, June 2004

 

“Did NASA Fake the Moon Landing?”

Astronomy Magazine, July 2004

 

“Beyond Hubble, The Very Large Space Telescope”

Astronomy Magazine, November 2004

 

“The Lucifer Planets”

Astronomy Magazine, January 2005

 

“SS433: The Light Fantastic”

Astronomy Magazine, March 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

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