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August 2006 – Issue 15
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Eye on the sky: Simply starstruck Star clusters shine like diamonds in the sky, making them easy targets for observers
What happened to life on Mars? Ten years ago it provided 'stunning' evidence of life on the Red Planet. So what happened to the martian meteorite?
Galaxies and black holes Black holes can sculpt galaxies as well as destroy matter, as Peter Bond discovers
COVER STORY: Top 10 summer sights From dazzling globular clusters to must-see celestial rings, Patrick Moore unveils his 10 favourite sights of the summer sky
ON LOCATION: SpacedOut Chris Lintott investigates a set of sculptures depicting a scaled-down Solar System
START HERE: Distances in space Get your head around the vast distances of space that the Solar System takes up in our beginners' guide to astronomy
MASTERCLASS: Infrared astronomy How infrared instruments uncover parts of the Universe that other scopes can't
FAME FILE: Giuseppe Piazzi Patrick Moore profiles the ex-monk, theologian and professor of mathematics who stumbled across the largest asteroid
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