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Advanced technologies now available at the National Science Foundation's Dunn Solar Telescope at Sunspot, NM, are revealing striking details inside sunspots and hint at features remaining to be discovered in solar activity. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Before the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will again explore the surface of the moon. And this time, we're going to stay, building outposts and paving the way for eventual journeys to Mars and beyond. There are echoes of the iconic images of the past, but it won't be your grandfather's moon shot. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

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Wing Eng covers the parfocal line of 1-1/4" Televue eyepieces in this week's review winner...

Astronomers have glimpsed dusty debris around an essentially dead star where gravity and radiation should have long ago removed any sign of dust. The discovery might provide insights into our own solar system’s eventual demise several billion years from now.<b> NOTE: The size of this article precludes offering international translations. - Ed.</b>

In recent years, mathematicians have discovered an almost perfect parallel between the motion of spacecraft through the solar system and the motion of atoms in a chemical reaction--a hidden unity that has led to innovative new ways to design space missions. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Virgo image gives evidence of violent life, death of cluster galaxies (<i>NOTE: This article was too long to allow for translations - Ed.</i>)

Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several distant galaxies. One of these galaxies, among the most distant ever seen, appears to be unusually massive and mature for its place in the young universe. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

This week's review winner takes a look at and through the 60mm Apo by TeleVue...

Cambridge, MA - What did the very first stars look like? How did they live and die? Astronomers have ideas, but no proof. The first stars are so distant and formed so long ago that they are invisible to our best telescopes... <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). The strange light has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade...

Tycho's Remnant Provides Shocking Evidence for Cosmic Rays.<b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Sorry for the lapse guys and gals but your intrepid editor was away last week erecting his dark sky site (<a href="http://www.pswalsh.com/meadow">Click here for all the details</a>) and is only just now getting back in the saddle. To make up for it, we're posting 2 winners this week - a couple of 80mm scopes get the once over. It's good to be back amongst friends...

El Segundo, CA – September 8, 2005 – SpaceX today announced its new launch vehicle, the Falcon 9, an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) class vehicle. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

The detection of deuterium is of interest because the amount of deuterium can be related to the amount of dark matter in the universe, but accurate measurements have been elusive.<b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>