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February 2024

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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Observing, The Sun, Upcoming Events

How to observe the Sun safely during a solar eclipse

Vaonis’ Vespera is a portable smart scope that can be used for night — or day — sky viewing.
Telescopes and Equipment

Vaonis’ Vespera smart scope reviewed

Polaris lights up the Little Bear in the north.
Deep-Sky Objects

Binocular Universe: Northward bound

Countless people find astronomy fun, and for many good reasons.
Observing

Strange Universe: Celestial fun

Active Region 13055 on the Sun
Solar System, Stars

What causes sunspots?

Long-exposure images capture the stunning streaks created by Perseid meteors. Their tails can vary in color depending on their speed and chemical composition.
Observing

Exploring Turkey’s dark-sky delights

Mars InSight solar panel covered with dust
Robotic Spaceflight

Why doesn’t NASA build a mechanism to clean the solar panels on its Mars rovers?

The author’s grandchildren view the partial phases of the 2017 eclipse with a homebuilt Advanced Safe Solar Viewer.
2024 Solar Eclipse

Eclipse viewing made simple

The space station Tiangong has been constructed over the course of multiple launches. It consists of a central core module named Tianhe and two lab modules named Wentian and Mengtian. In this rendering, a Tianzhou cargo craft is docked in the foreground, with a Shenzhou crew capsule docked in the background.
Space Exploration

China is embarking on a science and exploration program of staggering scale

Antennas of the Very Large Array
Science

Can astronomers do their work during the day?

Rosette Nebula
Deep-Sky Objects

Large deep-sky objects to catch each season

OSIRIS-REx’s TAGSAM sample collector
Science

Top 10 space stories of 2023

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