September 2008
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
How astronomers cracked the Einstein code
Scientists are colliding virtual black holes to put relativity to the final test.
Web extra: When black holes merge
Numerical relativity researcher Manuela Campanelli describes the culminating moments of the merger of two black holes.
Europe’s space revolution
Two simultaneous European space missions will explore the cosmic background radiation and the structure that evolved from it.
The coming solar superstorm
In 1859, the Sun unleashed its biggest storm in 450 years. We’re more vulnerable than ever to its next blast.
Web extra: Solar explosions
See two movies of the Sun from the Hinode observatory.
Illustrated: Meteors rock Phobos
The Red Planet’s largest moon bears scars from eons of major impacts.
NASA’s Phoenix digs Mars
The Red Planet’s newest spacecraft delves beneath the surface in search of ice.
Explore the southern Milky Way’s dark clouds
Dusty webs sprawling across the galaxy’s richest star fields make for must-see observing.
Discover 10 top Milky Way delights
From Sagittarius to Cassiopeia, late summer offers a lot to observe.
Easy imaging with the DSI III
Meade’s Deep Sky Imager III offers the options of more expensive CCD cameras.
Departments
This month in Astronomy
Letters
Web talk
Bob Berman’s strange universe
Stephen James O’Meara’s secret sky
Glenn Chaple’s observing basics
Phil Harrington’s binocular universe
The Cygnus Arm flexes its muscle
News
The sky this month
Ask Astro
Coming events
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