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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

Intelligent Life in Space

By Edward C. Olson

pg. 6

Forum

- Fireflies - The Curse of the Full Moon

pg. 24

In Focus

pg. 32

Behind the Scenes

pg. 33

Photography in Astronomy

By Jack B. Marling

Deep-Sky Duos

pg. 34

Eye on the Sky

By Fred Schaaf

July's Blue Moon

pg. 42

Equipment Atlas

By Robert Allen Buss

My Quest for a Planetary Telescope

pg. 51

AstroReviews

pg. 55

AstroNews

pg. 60

AstroCalendar

pg. 64

AstroMart

pg. 65

Stellar Frontiers

By Stephen L. Gillett

The Rise and Fall of the Early Reducing Atmosphere

pg. 66

The Backyard Astronomer

Lyra

pg. 78

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