June 2012
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
Do billions of rogue planets drift through space?
Gravitational interactions may have untethered myriad worlds from their parent stars.
Web Extra: See microlensing in action
Here’s how astronomers detect free-floating planets.
The 6 most important numbers in the universe
Find out how the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and other big numbers govern the cosmos.
Web Extra: Carry around the universe’s top numbers
Now you can print out and keep tabs on some of science’s most important figures in style.
Inside the world’s most powerful machine
With the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, scientists explore the highest energies and the smallest scales.
How to view June’s rare Venus transit
Don’t miss your last chance to see Venus cross the Sun’s face.
Six nights under Namibia’s dark skies
Three amateur astronomers seek out celestial showpieces and some obscure dust-filled regions in the Southern Hemisphere.
Web Extra: More imaging under Namibia’s pristine skies
The Southern Hemisphere is filled with countless spectacular deep-sky objects to photograph.
Is telescope making dead?
Following World War II, most telescopes were homemade. Where are the amateur telescope makers today?
“Astronomy” tests two all-sky cameras
Moonglow Technologies’ All Sky Cam and Orion’s StarShoot AllSky Camera will let you monitor the sky from horizon to horizon.
Departments
The Sky this Month
StarDome and Path of the planets
In Every Issue
This Month in Astronomy
Letters
Astro News
New Products
The Cosmic Grid
Letters
Astro News
New Products
The Cosmic Grid
Beautiful Universe
Web Talk
Deep-sky showcase
Reader Gallery
Web Talk
Deep-sky showcase
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