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November 1996 |
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Features Galaxies Colliding in the Night By
Damond Benningfield Welcome to the real universe, where giant galaxies devour their neighbors and collisions may give birth to black holes. |
pg. 36 |
Galileo's Dazzling Flyby By
Richard Talcott The intrepid spacecraft's first orbit of Jupiter found it imaging cracked, icy Europa, volcano-ravaged Io, and the Great Red Spot. |
pg. 56 |
Sky Almanac By
Alister Ling, Martin Ratcliffe The Moon's monthly trek across the sky brings it close to four bright planets and two fine star clusters. |
pg. 64 |
A Deep-Sky Romp Through Fall Skies By
Dan Koehler Hop your way among the stars to the best clusters, nebulae, and galaxies the autumn sky has to offer. |
pg. 74 |
It's Hip to Be Square By
David J. Eicher The Great Square of Pegasus, the body of a celestial horse and autumn's most prominent asterism, harbors a wealth of intriguing objects for the naked eye, binoculars, and telescope. |
pg. 82 |
Exploring Cassiopeia's Bright Clusters By
Robert A. Garfinkle Nearly overhead on November evenings, this stunning constellation holds dozens of the Milky Way's finest star clusters. |
pg. 84 |
A Winter Rich in Meteors By
Phil Bagnall The next three months offer three meteor showers worth your attention: the possibly stormy Leonids, the always reliable Geminids, and the frigid-weather Quadrantids. |
pg. 90 |
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