2016

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.

April Fool’s!

Did the Chicxulub asteroid help trigger volcanic activity?

Einstein’s relativity

Supercomputer black hole collisions make fake gravitational waves

Exotic Objects, Milky Way

A guide to the black holes in our backyard

Gerard van Belle: The lives of stars

That’s astronomy, too

Robotic Spaceflight

If we know the path that both the Milky Way and our solar system have been on, could Hubble not look back on that path and see both at some point in the past?

Vega is said to rotate at about 87 percent of the speed that would tear it apart. If it ever reached that speed, what would an observer on Earth witness?

Strange indeed

Astrophotography

Concentric contemplation

Exoplanets, Observing, Planets, Solar System, The Moon

Jupiter dazzles all night