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November 2016

November 2016

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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

Bob Berman’s guide to cosmic rays

by Bob Berman

This energetic flow of particles surrounds us, but what effect does it really have?

The exoplanet next door

by John Wenz

There’s no star closer to us than Proxima Centauri — and now we know it has an Earth-mass planet in its habitable zone.

Ask Astro

The Sky This Month

by Martin Ratcliffe, Alister Ling

StarDome and Path of the Planets

by Richard Talcott, Roen Kelly

Sizing up space rocks

by Michael Carroll

From near-Earth objects to the distant Oort Cloud, the solar system’s bodies teach us about its origins.

What links galaxies and black holes?

by John Kormendy

Most large galaxies harbor a supermassive black hole in their core. Astronomers are studying how these monsters affect their host’s evolution.

Meet astronomy’s West Coast wizards

by Tony Hallas

By specializing in lenses, mirrors, and drives, three California companies have risen to the top.

How astronomers measure brightness

by Michael E. Bakich

Whose bright idea was this backward magnitude system anyway?

Columns

Strange Universe

by Bob Berman

For Your Consideration

by Jeff Hester

Binocular Universe

by Phil Harrington

Secret Sky

by Stephen James O'Meara

Observing Basics

by Glenn Chaple

Astro Sketching

by Erika Rix

Departments

Sky this Month

Evening planet show

StarDome and Path of the Planets

Ask Astro

Faster than light

Converting refractor to solar scope

Meteor speed and light

Gravitational waves vs. electromagnetic

Gravitaional lens configurations

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Observe the Virgo Cluster of galaxies: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

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