August 2008

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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

Is there an end to cosmology?

By Abraham Loeb

In the far future, astronomers will have only one galaxy to study, and all evidence for the Big Bang will be lost.

pg. 28

Where will astronomy be in 35 years?

By Francis Reddy

If you like monster telescopes, dark energy, and exo-Earths, you'll love what astronomers are planning for the next decades.

pg. 30

Web extra: Zoom into the Andromeda Galaxy

By Francis Reddy

Explore a massive mosaic of our neighboring spiral.

Top 10 discoveries of the past 35 years

By Richard Talcott

An overly energetic universe, hundreds of new planets, and twin voyages of discovery highlight 35 years of incredible astronomical breakthroughs.

pg. 36

Web extra: Bubbling under the top 10

By Richard Talcott

A lot has happened in astronomy these past 35 years, and it wasn't easy to whittle down our list of the top 10 discoveries. Here are five more breakthroughs that just missed our list.

10 rising stars of astronomy

By Daniel Pendick

The past 35 years of astronomy have been stunning. Here are up-and-coming astronomers likely to blaze new trails in coming decades.

pg. 60

Web extra: Find out more about up-and-coming astronomers

By Daniel Pendick

Surf these links to learn more about the 10 up-and-coming astronomers profiled in our August 2008 35-year anniversary issue.

Poster: Astronomy magazine's first 35 years

By David J. Eicher

Some of the most important astronomical events have occurred since our magazine's birth.

Web extra: Thirty-five years of stories

Read a sampling of stories from Astronomy since its beginning.