August 2005
The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each monthly issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color photography, complete sky coverage, spot-on observing tips, informative telescope reviews, and much more! All this in an easy-to-understand, user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level.
Features
Seeing the dawn of time
Cosmic inflation plugged gaping holes in the Big Bang theory — and opened up the world of the multiverse.
Postcards from Mars
Messages from two lonely rovers show the Red Planet still is wetter, dustier, and more complex than anyone imagined.
Before there was light
Astronomers are poised to explore the mysterious cosmic Dark Ages.
Jewels on velvet
In southern Ophiuchus, dark nebulae serve as backdrops for many globular clusters.
Star shower
The year’s best meteor shower, the Perseids, arrives this month.
Image like a pro
Producing high-quality astroimages takes practice. Here are some hard-won lessons I’ve learned along the way.
Paging through the past
Antique astronomy books are treasures you can collect.
Secret weapons
Nebula filters cut skyglow and let you see more with less.
Departments
This month in Astronomy
Letters
Bob Berman’s strange universe
Glenn Chaple’s observing basics
News
The sky this month
New products
Coming events
Advertiser index
Resources
Reader gallery
