The backyard stargazer

• Autores: Lisa Grossman
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3073, 2016, pág. 27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a garden shed in Arcen, the Netherlands, amateur astronomer Harrie Rutten awaits the moment when an asteroid is due to pass in front of a star. At the appointed time, the star disappears, reappears, then winks out again. It turns out the asteroid was part of a binary pair. Here, Grossman features photographer Nick van Tiem's new book, The Star Disappeared, in which he tries to show why five of them go to the lengths they do