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  1. Astronomy

    Planetary Picture? Criteria for planethood cloud object’s identity

    Astronomers are debating whether an image of a planetary-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf qualifies as the first image of an extrasolar planet.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Animals

    Alive and Knocking: Glimpses of an ivory-billed legend

    New observations confirm that the famed ivory-billed woodpecker has not gone extinct after all.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Humans

    Letters from the May 7, 2005, issue of Science News

    Clearer yet “Weighing In on a Star: A stellar size limit” (SN: 3/12/05, p. 164) includes three images of the Arches cluster near the center of the Milky Way, each taken with a different telescope. I’d be interested to know what the three telescopes are.