October 2021
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 James Webb Space Telescope lives!
The most powerful space telescope ever built, NASA’s new flagship observatory will look deeper than Hubble and hunt for neighboring life.
Capturing the cosmos
Astrophotography takes loads of practice and plenty of patience. But the results can be truly spectacular.
Tour one astronomy club’s observing mecca
The Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association is preserving and sharing dark skies at its observing complex near the Chiricahua Mountains.
Neutron stars: A cosmic gold mine
These exotic stars may hold the key to solving some of physics’ greatest mysteries.
Looking for galaxies in all the wrong places
Despite battling copious dust and crowded star fields, observing galaxies through the Milky Way is well worth the effort.
Our 11th annual Star Products
Astronomy’s editors have searched the marketplace for equipment designed to help all of us enjoy our hobby a little more.
Departments
Ask Astro
Sky this Month
StarDome and Path of the Planets
In Every Issue
Breakthrough
Astro News
Advertiser Index
Astro News
Advertiser Index
Letters
New Products
Reader Gallery
New Products
Reader Gallery