October 2006
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
The new search for distant planets
At 200 exoplanets and counting, astronomers are much closer to discovering worlds that might resemble our own.
Online extra: Everything you need to know about exoplanets
Astronomers have found more than 200 planet candidates circling stars other than the Sun. Here’s the scoop on the currently known planets.
How do you make a giant exoplanet?
Scientists endlessly debate theories of how giant planets form, but only observations will settle the question.
Online extra: Growing exoplanets
Computer models help astronomers understand how planets form.
Planets without suns
Isolated giant planets, unbound to any star, may be the Milky Way’s most common worlds.
Atlas of extrasolar planets
The worlds beyond our solar system show a rich diversity no one suspected.
Where is life hiding?
Location holds the key to finding extraterrestrial life.
The most important cosmologist you’ve never heard of
Henry Tye transforms cosmology as inflation’s unsung hero. His latest pursuit: Where did our universe come from?
The sharpest image
Put away your eyeglasses. Tele Vue’s DioptRx lenses correct astigmatism.
Shooting through the light
Learn how one astroimager succeeds in a light-polluted sky.
Online extra: Urban astroimaging delights
One astroimager proves you can attain striking astroimages despite living under a light-polluted sky.
Head of the glass
Ease of use and terrific optics place the Stellarvue SV4 high on any observer’s want list.
Online extra: October 2006 book reviews
One astroimager proves you can attain striking astroimages despite living under a light-polluted sky.
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