January 2007
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
Top 10 astronomy stories of 2006
Cosmologists peered into the Big Bang, astronomers tallied 200 alien worlds, and planetary scientists captured a comet.
Online extra: Will Stardust fly by another comet?
Scientists aren”t done with NASA”s Stardust probe quite yet.
Hubble discovers 16 exotic planets
Egg-shaped planets with dazzling aurorae must be the norm for these new worlds that orbit within shouting distance of their parent stars.
Is the Orion Nebula as big as the Moon?
The Moon’s apparent size provides a yardstick for comparing the sky’s best-known targets.
Portraits from Mars
Images from Spirit and Opportunity turn raw science into artistic landscapes.
Online extra: More interplanetary postcards
When scientists have the time, they can create beautiful pictures.
All about the Crab Nebula
A supernova blast seen in 1054 continues to shed light on stellar evolution.
Online extra: Inside the Crab Nebula
Scientists watch this fascinating object change over time.
Sun studio
Learn how to capture dazzling solar photos.
Make Hubble shots your own dazzling photos
You can turn astronomical data into gorgeous images with the authors’ Photoshop plug-in.
Online extra: Managing your metadata
Embed astronomy-specific information into your astroimages using the FITS Liberator plug-in for Photoshop.
Celestron’s Onyx 80EDF
Don’t let this scope’s compact size fool you – it’s a high-quality workhorse.
Departments
This month in Astronomy
Beautiful universe
Letters
Bob Berman’s strange universe
Glenn Chaple’s observing basics
Phil Harrington’s binocular universe
Cascading down the Giraffe”s neck
News
The sky this month
New products
Coming events
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Resources
Reader gallery
