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1999 columns

Thank the little green men
DECEMBER: How a poor translation from Italian to English led to an obscure nobody coming up with a Big Bang of an idea.

Star in a bubble

NOVEMBER: Before our Sun burns all the planets to a crisp, it will be enshrined in a planetary nebula.

RETURN OF THE LEONIDS
Greatest show in the sky
OCTOBER: In 1833, people woke to a sky that seemed ablaze. The hubbub was over the Leonid meteor shower, set for a possibly grand encore Nov. 17.

The house of comets
SEPTEMBER: Comets are beautiful and spectacular, but did you ever wonder where they come from? Learn what's known, and what is suspected.

Galileo
The strange facts in a famous story
AUGUST: So, you think Galileo invented the telescope and proved that the Earth goes around the Sun?

The Battle of MACHOS vs. WIMPS over the missing Universe
July

Mysterious flashes in the night
June: Colossal energy source remains enigmatic

Hunting for galactic eggs
May: Finding beauty in overlooked dark nebulae

Wil Milan (wmilan@airdigital.com) is a deep-sky astrophotographer based in Arizona. Some of his work can be seen at www.astrophotographer.com.

Will Milan's Universe appears on the first Monday of each month.