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Here are the two latest articles from the Astronomy site at BellaOnline.com.

Boötes - the Herdsman
This ancient constellation contains black holes as massive as a billion Suns, extrasolar planets and has acquired a meteor shower from an extinct neighbor. Its brightest star, a red giant 25 times the diameter of the Sun, is a sign that spring is here.

https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art19551.asp

Luna - Earth's Daughter
The Moon has always been our celestial companion, lighting the night, its changes serving as a calendar. What is it, where did it come from, why do we only see one side of it, what is our future together?

https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art32833.asp

Boötes has been updated, new information added and links repaired and improved. The Moon article is a new one to replace a sketchier one from many years ago.

*Birth anniversaries*
(1) March 14, 1879: Albert Einstein
(2) March 14, 1855: Giovanni Schiaparelli. Italian astronomer whose map of Mars was a standard reference in planetary cartography.
(3) March 14, 1935: Eugene Cernan. Apollo 17 Commander and the last man to walk on the Moon.
(4) March 15, 1932: Alan Bean. Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot.
(5) March 15, 1713: Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. French astronomer who surveyed the southern hemisphere stars and invented 14 constellations still in use. https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art183583.asp
(6) March 16, 1750: Caroline Herschel. One of the first women to be paid as an astronomer, she discovered eight comets and a number of deep-sky comets, and was an invaluable assistant to her brother William. https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art32051.asp
(7) March 17, 1930: Jim Irwin. Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot.
(8) March 21, 1865. Antonia Maury. American astronomer best known for her work at Harvard College Observatory. https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art302878.asp
(9) March 23, 1749: Pierre-Simon Laplace. Brilliant French mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who is sometimes called "France's Newton".

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