2019

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.

A rare solar halo display

How will engineers interact with artificial intelligence?

Telescopes and Equipment

We test Sky-Watcher USA’s Evostar 150

When was the Milky Way formed?

Are any of the planets’ average distances from the Sun changing? Is Neptune moving away to fit Bode’s law?

Bright treasures in the constellation Leo

Georges Seurat’s sky

Astrophotography, Observing

How to photograph the northern lights

Hunt the deep sky in the Hunting Dogs

Artists always show a black hole’s accretion disk oriented in one plane. But stars near Sagittarius A* orbit in a variety of planes. If each of those stars is eventually digested, wouldn’t there be multiple accretion disks in multiple planes?

The women immortalized on the Moon

Human Spaceflight

Rusty Schweickart remembers Apollo 9