The October issue of Astronomy is in the hands of subscribers and hits newsstands next Tuesday. For readers, it means interesting new articles and amazing photographs; for me, it means the time has come to update Astronomy.com to reflect our new issue. Updating the web site for each issue was a new responsibility...

Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael Bakich will talk with Jon Grayson of KMOX radio (AM 1120) in St. Louis Sunday night at 9:10 Central. Jon invited Michael to be a monthly guest on the station's "Reality Check" program. Their conversation typically lasts 15-20 minutes. They discuss...

A frequent contributing artist for Astronomy , Lynette Cook has recently completed a project about the historical 1843 outburst of Eta Carinae for the Gemini Observatory. In a sequence of seven images, her conception of the expanding blast wave from Eta Carinae’s 1843 eruption reflects new research on...

So, I’m back at Astronomy magazine after a 2-year hiatus. Because some of that time was spent away from the field of astronomy (aside from looking up at the night sky and reading the big news stories), I’ve spent much of the last few days catching up on astronomical news. It doesn’t seem like I’ve been...

Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael Bakich will talk with Jon Grayson of KMOX radio (AM 1120) in St. Louis Sunday night at 9:10 Central. Jon invited Michael to be a monthly guest on the station's "Reality Check" program. Their conversation typically lasts 15-20 minutes. They discuss...

Now that subscribers have the November issue in hand, we’ve updated Astronomy.com with our newest Web extras, which complement the articles you are starting to read (that is, if you haven’t already read the magazine cover-to-cover over the weekend). And this month, we’ve got great examples of all the...

Trillions of miles way, disks and gas and dust encircle baby stars just a few million years old. Rocky planetary cores form, then sweep through the disks, accreting additional material around themselves like a cardboard tube swirling through a carnival cotton-candy machine. As the protoplanets gain mass...

Some of you may have already noticed the new section in the rotating box on our home page promoting the Young Astronomers Video Contest , but, in case you haven’t, I want you to check it out, break out those cameras, and start shooting. Because, frankly, I’m really excited for this contest. Now, let...

Every year, for a single day, the Astronomy staff gets together and moves off site to think about the universe. We like to operate like a big family, and when this family goes on the road, we tend to think clearly about the magazine and the web site. The group moves to my house for the day, where we...

Next week, Astronomy magazine’s latest special issue hits newsstands, and it’s one I’ve been looking forward to seeing published since I started working here almost 4 months ago. The Solar System was one of the first projects I got to work on, which by that time meant reading all the stories and checking...