„Zvaigžņotā Debess” The Starry Sky Autumn 2019 (245) CONTENTS
ACTUALITIES
The news briefly. Ilgonis Vilks. Page 2.
Astronomy news in Latvia. Ilgonis Vilks. Page 4.
EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE
Gaia – a master of precision navigation. Anna Gintere. Page 6.
EXOPLANET FOR LATVIA
Latvia gives the name to the star and the exoplanet. Mārtiņš Gills. Page 12.
OLYMPIC CHALLENGE
Space missions. Prepared by Māris Krastiņš. Page 13.
EXOPLANET FOR LATVIA
How the Latvian exoplanet was discovered. Interview by Mārtiņš Gills. Page 14.
Let's get acquainted - hot jupiter! Interview by Mārtiņš Gills. Page 18.
The hard way to discover the Second Earth. Interview by Mārtiņš Gills. Page 20.
SPACEFLIGHT
Probe Hayabusa2 shoots to the asteroid. Raitis Misa. Page 24.
TELESCOPES
We'll measure the solar wind in Irbene. Artūrs Vrubļevskis, Boriss Rjabovs, Dmitrijs Bezrukovs. Page 26.
ASTROSITE
The old Tartu Observatory. Mārtiņš Gills. Page 29.
SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Falsifiability and physics. Matthew R. Francis. Translated by Ilgonis Vilks. Page 30.
PHOTO STORY
Hercules star cluster M13. Sergejs Klimanskis. Page 36.
LATVIAN SCIENTISTS
Jānis Klētnieks – 90! Interview by Raitis Misa. Page 38.
SCHOOL ASTRONOMY
Latvia's 47th open school astronomy Olympiad. Māris Krastiņs. Page 44.
AMATEUR ASTRONOMY
Latvian astrophotographer’s dream – Namibia? Kristaps Kemlers. Page 46.
Autumn – Aurora borealis time. Ilgonis Vilks. Page 52.
Mercury on the disk of the Sun! Ilgonis Vilks. Page 57.
OVERVIEW OF THE SKY
Celestial bodies in the autumn of 2019. Juris Kauliņš. Page 58.
MOBILE APP
Not to miss an astronomical event. Mārtiņš Gills. Page 64.