April 2015
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 man behind the Pillars
What has Jeff Hester’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope image of the Eagle Nebula meant to him personally?
Hubble’s top seven science discoveries
From the incandescent brilliance of the first stars and galaxies to the overwhelming power of dark matter and energy, the space telescope has illuminated many cosmic mysteries.
Web Extra: The impact of Hubble’s deep fields
No one could have expected that the space telescope’s long exposures would allow scientists to see galaxies 95 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.
Saving Hubble
How astronauts continually reinvented the most important telescope ever.
Web Extra: Relive the Hubble servicing missions
Every time the space telescope saw repairs and upgrades, Astronomy was there to cover the event.
How Hubble changed the world
Think today’s society would be the same without the big eye in the sky? Think again.
Web Extra: Hubble images: from data to dramatic scenes
The space telescope doesn’t have a point-and-shoot camera. Find out what it takes to produce those iconic images.
25 years of dazzling images
The space telescope’s extraordinary vision has revealed star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in detail no one could have imagined.
Web Extra: Tour Hubble’s iconic images
Discover the science beyond the space telescope’s stunning celestial portraits.
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Sky this Month
StarDome and Path of the Planets
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Final Frontier
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Letters
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