April 2002
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
Cosmic Inflation Comes of Age
The key event of the early universe seems to be coming into clear focus, some 20 years after its existence was proposed.
Inflation Minifeatures
Get ready to explore eternal inflation and the origins of the universe, quintessential inflation, a pyrotechnic universe, and the search for a theory of everything.
Comet Borrelly’s Dark Nature
The intrepid explorer Deep Space 1 has given astronomers the most detailed images ever of a comet’s nucleus.
Protecting the Past: Is Time Travel Possible?
The world’s most celebrated physicist separates fact and fiction relative to one of the oldest scientific curiosities in the books.
Quenching the Sun’s Fire
Planning a trip to Australia or Africa to see this December’s total solar eclipse will be easy and rewarding.
Celestial Portraits: Hydra
The teeth of the Hydra conceal a vast swarm of galaxies as well as double stars and nebulae.
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