2014

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.

What’s in a name?

Exotic Objects, Stars

If a supernova’s original star is massive enough to form a black hole, why is there any explosion? Why doesn’t the entire mass of the original star simply fall onto the newly formed black hole and instantly vanish?

Web Extra: What makes stars tick?

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System

Web Extra: A historic encounter with Pluto

Deep-Sky Objects, Stars

Web Extra: 11 top winter binocular gems

Exoplanets, Planets, Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

How does NASA navigate a Mars rover’s direction and determine its location with the planet having no global magnetic field?

Astrophotography

Using masks, part 3

Exotic Objects, Stars

I’ve read that the gas ejected during supernova explosions glows at millions of degrees; I also have read that gas is tenuous. How would a million-degree gas feel physically? Would I vaporize while flying through such a cloud?

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System, The Moon

Jupiter’s marvelous moons

Exoplanets, Exotic Objects, Planets, Solar System, Stars, The Sun

Web Extra: 2014’s other big space stories

Ask Astro: Frozen stars

What impact has the Kepler space telescope’s exoplanet discoveries had on the Drake equation?