Cover Stories:

• Does life really need liquid water?

• The hunt for magnetars (a fast-spinning neutron star with an intense magnetic field that powers some of the strongest X- and gamma-ray flares known); Astronomers zero in on ultramagnetized stars that unleash mammoth bursts of energy

• Get ready for Leonid meteors

• View a rare transit of Mercury

• Observe fall's top galaxies

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