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December 1996

  1. Star Trails in Northern Skies 1
  2. Orion’s Star Colors 2
  3. Cocoon of a New White Dwarf 3
  4. Ice at the Lunar South Pole 4
  5. Io’s Giant Volcano Pele 5
  6. Globular Cluster M3 6
  7. Planetary Systems Now Forming in Orion 7
  8. Degas Ray Crater on Mercury 8
  9. Callisto Full Face 9
  10. Comet Halley’s Nucleus 10
  11. Starburst Ring in Galaxy NGC 1317 11
  12. The Milky Way Through the Summer Triangle 12
  13. Disorder in Stephan’s Quintet 13
  14. Our Solar System from Voyager 14
  15. Microlensing of the Einstein Cross 15
  16. Nebula Nova Cygni Turns On 16
  17. Mariner’s Mercury 17
  18. A Sky Full Of Hydrogen 18
  19. Comet Hale-Bopp Inbound 19
  20. The UV SMC from UIT 20
  21. Sun and Winter Solstice 1996 21
  22. 18 Miles From Deimos 22
  23. The Hills of Ganymede 23
  24. A Mirry Christmas 24
  25. An Earth Ornament 25
  26. Carl Sagan 1934-1996 26
  27. HET: The New Largest Optical Telescope 27
  28. CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule 28
  29. Dark Bok Globules in IC 2944 29
  30. X-Ray Earth 30
  31. Io Rotating 31