March 1991
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
Galileo’s Flyby of Earth and the Moon
It was the first interplanetary mission to explore an inhabited planet.
Tracking the Great White
Last autumn the normally quiet atmosphere of Saturn was disrupted by its biggest storm in sixty years.
The Southern Radio Sky Comes to Light
An old antenna has given us a new look at the southern sky.
A Grand Gathering of Galaxies
Known for his discovery of Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh was also one of the first to see the universe’s grandest structures – the superclusters of galaxies.
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