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November 2020

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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.

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A tale of two galaxies

by Knut Olsen

One large and one small, the Magellanic Clouds are familiar sights in the southern sky — and they can teach us a great deal about the Milky Way.

How Galileo blended science and art

by Dan Falk

Always drawing, sketching, or painting, Galileo Galilei saw the cosmos through an artist’s eye.

Gold from the stars

by Raymond Shubinski

Humanity’s fascination with this precious metal is increased by knowing it comes from the stars.

Observations of Jupiter's moons

by Klaus R. Brasch, Leo Aerts

These remote satellites have revealed scant details to earthbound observers for more than 400 years, and offer a great observing challenge.

Collect the cosmos in stamps

by Katrin Raynor-Evans

While the universe is vast, this selection of stamps can shrink it down to a manageable size.

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Anatomy of the observer

by Bob Berman

"Fire" in the sky

by Stephen James O'Meara

Target asteroid Papagena

by Glenn Chaple

A whale's tale

by Phil Harrington

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