December 2019

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

Return to Pluto!

by
S. Alan Stern

Researchers already are planning an ambitious spacecraft that will orbit the mysterious world.

The oddities of Isaac Newton

by
Raymond Shubinski

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Revered as a great thinker and scientist, he was also obsessive, secretive, vindictive, and paranoid.

Chasing a Chilean eclipse

by
Jake Parks

Peruvian nights, Incan sites, and coronal lights were all on full display during my recent adventure through South America.

Starmus V rocks in Zurich

by
David J. Eicher

The fifth Starmus Festival, an international celebration of science and music, assembled an all-star cast of astronauts, Nobel Prize laureates, musicians, and scientists.