2012

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.

How can astronomers tell the difference between a group or cluster of stars and an actual galaxy?

Could the huge gamma-ray bubbles that extend above and below the center of the Milky Way be a boundary of matter and antimatter, whose collision emits gamma rays?

Where is the Northern Coalsack?

Find the solar eclipse in your May sky

Biggest Full Moon

More of astronomy’s benefits to society

Guiding the light

What is the Higgs particle?

Hear the latest in the alien sciences

If the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies collide head-on when the two are predicted to merge five billion years from now, what is likely to happen to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds?

Saturn “squared”?

Spring binary showpieces