August 2018
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 10 biggest things in Astronomy
For nearly half a century, the world’s leading title on astronomy and space has reported mesmerizing science.
The Red Planet revealed
More than a dozen spacecraft have shown Mars to be a wonderfully diverse world with hidden stores of water.
Shining light on black holes
It took 200 years to find the first black hole. Now we know they’re everywhere.
Voyager’s Grand Tour
The twin probes explored more planets, discovered more moons, and offered more breaking news than any other spacecraft.
Inflation leaves its mark
Alan Guth’s remarkable theory provides a master key to the universe we see today.
Decoding the cosmic microwave background
The Big Bang left behind a unique signature on the sky. Probes such as COBE, WMAP, and Planck taught us how to read it.
Hubble’s astounding legacy
NASA’s finest instrument has captured more images and generated more research than any telescope in history.
The weird mystery of dark energy
Though it dominates the universe, dark energy is the biggest discovery we don’t understand.
Exoplanets burst onto the scene
Since their discovery in 1992, planets outside our solar system have been found around thousands of stars in the galaxy.
Pluto finds its place
No longer a lone world at the edge of the solar system, Pluto is the brightest and best-studied member of a vast throng of Kuiper Belt objects.
Glimpsing gravitational waves
The screams of colliding black holes allow astronomers to study the universe in a whole new way.
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