January 2015
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
Top 10 space stories of 2014
Scientists discovered a lake Superior below Enceladus’ surface, found another dwarf planet in the solar system, and mapped a million galaxies to give them a precise measurement of the universe’s expansion.
Web Extra: 2014’s other big space stories
Although they just missed the top 10, brown dwarfs, black holes, the Sun, exoplanets, and asteroids had big years.
Astronomy’s 2015 Guide to the Night Sky
This handy four-page insert will keep you looking up all year.
Kepler spacecraft’s new lease on life
Having enjoyed four successful years of planet hunting, Kepler is now poised to revolutionize new areas of astrophysics.
Web Extra: The next search for Earth-like worlds
The Kepler spacecraft discovered thousands of exoplanets. Now astronomers are trying to find out if any might harbor life.
The planetarium world meets in China
As dark skies diminish, the International Planetarium Society meets in Beijing to discuss its members’ greater responsibility in bringing the stars down to Earth.
Web Extra: The planetarium worlds hit China
Editor David J. Eicher captured many stunning sights while at the International Planetarium Society meeting in Beijing, from stunning new shows to an ancient observatory.
A visual observer’s quest for greatness
With more than 1,000 sketches of deep-sky objects to his credit, Roger Ivester still just wants to observe.
Where are the women in amateur astronomy?
Few women seem to participate in our hobby, but those who do are having the time of their lives.
10 top winter binocular treats
When it’s too cold to set up your telescope, get your sky-fix by grabbing your binoculars.
Web Extra: 11 top winter binocular gems
One supernova remnant, two double stars, and eight clusters beckon cold-weather skygazers.
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