Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2026

5 ASTRO PUBLISHING NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2026 I n the background, an iconic image from the film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” featuring the mysterious black monolith in the fore- ground. This can be interpreted primarily as an evolutionary catalyst and a visual metaphor for an advanced extraterrestrial en- tity guiding humanity’s spiritual and technological growth at key intervals. [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Stanley Kubrick Productions] and the Dawn probe achieved 410 m/px on Ceres. In the Jupiter sys- tem, the Galileo probe performed slightly better: 20-220 m/px on av- erage and 6-9 m/px for very small areas of Europa and Ganymede. Less detail, however, for Titan, mapped by the Cassini probe with a resolution of 300-1500 m/px; for other satellites in the Saturn sys- tem, the resolution was 4-9 m/px for tiny areas of moons of particu lar