February 2023
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Features
Top 10 space stories of 2022
Last year kicked off the era of JWST, while astronomers mapped out the next decade of discovery and released some of the first results from the Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu.
See winter’s best Messier objects
Bundle up and behold the season’s finest deep-sky targets.
JWST sets its sights on Jupiter
NASA’s latest space telescope shows off its prowess, unveiling the ethereal beauty of the gas giant.
The Tucson triangle: America’s astronomical nexus
This trio of observatories is the greatest collection of scopes and spectrographs in the continental U.S.
The Navy’s great refractor turns 150
From martian moons to double stars, this historic telescope made its mark on the field.
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