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Here are this month's highlights:

Senior Editor Richard Talcott shares an animation of a planet developing from the debris disk surrounding an exploded star in “A dying star gives birth to planets.”

Associate Editor Daniel Pendick explains how robotic telescopes are hunting for exoplanets planets by communicating with each other in “How robots are looking for planets.”

Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich compiles a gallery of astrophotographer Dean Salman’s new imaging project in “More Salman Sharpless objects.”

Contributing Editor Phil Harrington provides a downloadable chart of dying stars to observe in the Swan in “Catalog of Cygnus planetary nebulae.”

Associate Editor Daniel Pendick answers the “Ask Astro” question: “Why does the Moon look so large sometimes as it rises on the horizon?”

And we’ve included a few more Q&As with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michelle Thaller in “Astro Confidential: Extending the conversations.”

Of course, we’ve posted “Bob Berman’s Strange Universe,” “Glenn Chaple’s Observing Basics,” “Stephen James O’Meara’s Secret Sky,” and “David Levy’s Evening Stars.” There’s July’s “The Sky this Month” and five “Ask Astro” questions.