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.

Exoplanets, Planets

Sara Seager: The latest on exoplanets

Astrophotography

Is it real?

Exoplanets, Planets

Most of the photographs I see of the aurora borealis are green. Is this due to the film used?

Not the end of science

Telescopes and Equipment

Check this out

A black hole’s gravity is so strong that light can’t escape. But every time I see a photo or an illustration there is something streaming in or out of it. How is this possible?

Exoplanets, Observing, Planets, Solar System, The Moon

Saturn at its best

Astrophotography

Ink spot

Attracted by the light

Halfway to the edge

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System

Venus has a weak magnetic field. Being much closer to the Sun than Mars, why has the solar wind not eroded its atmosphere?

Galaxies, Milky Way

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are approaching each other. With current technology, how long would it take before we could directly measure the apparent increase in size of Andromeda?