October 1993
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
Mars: The Russians Are Going!
The Red Planet awaits a Russian flotilla of rovers, balloon probes, and surface penetrators.
Seeing a Star’s Surface
Textbooks say you can’t see the surfaces of stars, but they’re wrong.
Jove’s Hammer
What happens when a speeding comet collides with a big planet? Watch Jupiter next July.
In the Beginning
Like time capsules from over 10 billion years ago, globular clusters yield clues to our Galaxy’s birth.
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