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 | Disappearing craters, supermassive black holes, deep impact, extraterrestrial digs, and more
Published: November 30, 2004 |
 | Scientists have found a Moon rock substantially younger than any previously known. By Robert Burnham
Published: November 24, 2004 |
 | Robotic rovers roll through space and time.
By Andrew Fazekas
Published: November 17, 2004 |
 | Europe's Mars Express returns its first close-up images of Phobos. By Francis Reddy
Published: November 12, 2004 |
 | Radar aboard the Cassini spacecraft is painting a picture of Saturn's moon Titan that features icy volcanism. By Robert Burnham
Published: November 10, 2004 |
 | Observations with the Keck II Telescope show the solar system's seventh planet still holds a few surprises. By Francis Reddy
Published: November 10, 2004 |
 | A small, newly discovered clutch of stars belonging to the Milky Way may be a tiny galaxy or a strange globular cluster. In either case, it should tell astronomers more about the galaxy's dark matter. By Robert Burnham
Published: November 9, 2004 |
 | Hubble image reveals rare Jupiter alignment of two moons and three shadows. By Jeremy McGovern
Published: November 4, 2004 |
 | A runaway sun in Tycho's supernova remnant is likely a surviving companion of the exploded star — and probably triggered the blast. By Francis Reddy
Published: November 3, 2004 |
 | Discovering a comet in a spectrograph's slit is the astronomical equivalent of a hole in one.
Matthew Kenworthy
Published: November 3, 2004 |
 | Astronomers have measured the sizes of seven stars, and how they did it may help them pin down the distance scale in extragalactic space.
By Michael E. Bakich
Published: November 1, 2004 |
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