... The New General Catalog of star clusters and nebulae really isn't so new. ... A Sundial for Mars . ... When Mars Surveyor arrives at Mars in 2002, it will carry a sundial. ... Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The Gods of Mars". ... Astronomers recently announced the detection of three large planets orbiting the star Upsilon Andromedae - the first planetary system known to orbit a normal star other than our Sun. ...