October 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.

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Features

Secrets from Titan’s seas

by
Alexander G. Hayes

By probing “magic islands” and seafloors, astronomers are learning more than ever about the lakes and seas on Saturn’s largest moon.

Web Extra: Titans seasons slowly change

by
Korey Haynes

As Saturn’s largest moon shifts its orbit around the Sun, the changing seasons drive liquid from one pole to the other.

What lurks in the monstrous heart of the Milky Way?

by
Liz Kruesi

NASA’s bargain X-ray space telescope, NuSTAR, is revealing hidden secrets from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Web Extra: Watch how NuSTAR unfolded in space

by
Eric Betz

NASA’s newest X-ray space telescope put mission managers through 24 minutes of terror as it unfolded 57 tinker-toy-like sections in orbit.

No country for old telescopes

by
Joshua Sokol

At Wesleyan University’s Van Vleck Observatory, a century-old 20-inch refractor is experiencing a rebirth. The fate of many other classic refractors is not so bright.

Web Extra: Rebirth of a legendary telescope

by
Richard Talcott

At many observatories, the mantra seems to be: “Out with the old, and in with the new.” But at Wesleyan University’s Van Vleck Observatory, restorers are breathing new life into a century-old refractor. See their progress.