November 2016
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
Bob Berman’s guide to cosmic rays
This energetic flow of particles surrounds us, but what effect does it really have?
The exoplanet next door
There’s no star closer to us than Proxima Centauri — and now we know it has an Earth-mass planet in its habitable zone.
Ask Astro
The Sky This Month
StarDome and Path of the Planets
Sizing up space rocks
From near-Earth objects to the distant Oort Cloud, the solar system’s bodies teach us about its origins.
What links galaxies and black holes?
Most large galaxies harbor a supermassive black hole in their core. Astronomers are studying how these monsters affect their host’s evolution.
Meet astronomy’s West Coast wizards
By specializing in lenses, mirrors, and drives, three California companies have risen to the top.
How astronomers measure brightness
Whose bright idea was this backward magnitude system anyway?
Departments
Sky this Month
StarDome and Path of the Planets
In Every Issue
Snapshot
Letters
New Products
Reader Gallery
Letters
New Products
Reader Gallery
Breakthrough
Astro News
Advertiser Index
Astro News
Advertiser Index
