August 2020
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
A fresh look at our home star
Solar Orbiter will soon explore what shapes and powers the solar wind.
Excavating cosmic fossils
Like dinosaur bones, tiny micrometeorites reveal much about the ancient past.
Don’t miss the Perseids
This annual meteor shower will put on a great show in 2020.
Mine Aquila’s deep-sky gems
Star clusters and planetary nebulae will keep you looking at the Eagle all night long.
Life on the wide side
How to breathe new life into old astrophoto targets.
Meet an easy-to-use imaging scope
This clever device will capture celestial portraits even through light-polluted skies.
Observe Jupiter and Saturn at their best
Catch the two greatest telescopic planets at opposition this month and you’ll see beautiful planetary worlds!
Departments
Ask Astro
Sky this Month
Outer planets on display
StarDome and Path of the Planets
In Every Issue
Breakthrough
Astro News
Advertiser Index
Astro News
Advertiser Index
Letters
New Products
Reader Gallery
New Products
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