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Science: Dusty galaxies may hide their light
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Review: Return to the Red Planet / Review of ‘Mission to Mars: Report of the Mars Exploration Study Team’ by A. F. Chicarro
Books & Arts
Eskimos in the sky with dragons / Review of ‘Observing the Constellations’ by John Sanford
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Review: A heavenly companion / Review of ‘Norton’s 2000.0’ edited by Ian Ridpath 14.95
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Chips with everything astronomical: Review of ‘Electronic and Computer-aided Astronomy: From Eyes to Electronic Sensors’ by Ian S. McLean
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Technology
Technology: Cut-price telescope takes a clear view of the northern sky
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New hopes for Hipparcos
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Neptune – Voyager’s last picture show: The spacecraft Voyager 2 is leaving the Solar System 12 years after its launch – Its last close encounter showed us clouds on blue and stormy Neptune, and surprises on Triton, the moon with an icecap of methane, vol
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To count the stars in their courses / Review of ‘The Hipparcos Mission’ edited by Bruce Battrick
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Science: Mathematician predicts a multitude of moons
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Science: Astronomers discover first ‘microlens’
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Science: Occult events shed light on Saturn
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