2009

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.

Would it be possible for an amateur astronomer to combine multiple telescopes into a long-baseline interferometer?

How do stars move inside a globular cluster? Do they orbit a black hole, like the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy?

Observing, Telescopes and Equipment

Choose the right dome for your needs

Glenn Chaple’s Observing Basics: Feast on Saturn

Binocular Universe web extra: Messier bino-thon finding sequence

After the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies finish merging in a few billion years, what will happen to the other galaxies in the Local Group?

Exoplanets, Science

Bob Berman’s Strange Universe: Alien winds

Message from Mercury

Robotic Spaceflight

What bodies beyond Pluto will the New Horizons probe investigate?

What would we see if the solar system were located in a dark nebula like the Coal Sack? Would things look much different from inside a bright nebula such as the Orion?

Saturn returns to glory

Inside Saturn’s erupting moon