Astronomy

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 a user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level.

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JWST PEERS INTO THE HELIX • A planetary nebula’s closeup reveals details in its expanding gas.

HOT BYTES

SCHMIDT SCIENCES TO FUND FOUR NEW OBSERVATORIES • The philanthropic organization will build a space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Io’s most powerful volcanic eruption — ever

QUICK TAKES

Crew-11 comes home early

ICONIC NEBULA SPORTS A HIDDEN BAR

DEAD STAR MAKES WAVES

Astronomers on Cloud-9

SAVE UP TO 54% • ON 1 YEAR OF ASTRONOMY

THE SEARCH FOR ALIENS LEVELS UP • New observatories and AI are poised to turbocharge the hunt for intelligent life.

WHERE IS EVERYONE?

CONVERSATION STARTER

Should we keep looking for ET? • Despite decades-long searches, we have not yet found signs of extraterrestrial life. Is there value in finding nothing?

SOLVING FERMI’S PARADOX

SHOULD WE REACH OUT?

SKY THIS MONTH • THE SOLAR SYSTEM’S CHANGING LANDSCAPE AS IT APPEARS IN EARTH’S SKY.

RISING MOON • Libration all the way around

METEOR WATCH • Faint but not forgotten

STAR DOME

PATHS OF THE PLANETS

COMET SEARCH • Inbound for opposition

LOCATING ASTEROIDS • A practiced jump

The science and lore of aurorae • The physics behind the northern lights is just as colorful as their mythology.

ELECTRICITY FROM THE SKY

Swing your scope to SPRING’S STAR CLUSTERS • This season may be known for galaxies, but some impressive clusters are also within view.

ASTRONOMERS FIND the Greater Pleiades Complex • Combining data from two space telescopes, a new study proves the famous Seven Sisters cluster is the core of a much larger, dissolving stellar family.

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Modify your DSLR • The gains for imagers are immense.

NEW PRODUCTS

ASK ASTRO • Astronomy’s experts from around the globe answer your cosmic questions.

READER GALLERY

BREAKTHROUGH

Jupiter’s last evening gasp

STAR DOME