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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The end of it all

Astronomy

ASTRO LETTERS

UNPARALLELED LOOK AT GALACTIC CORE • JWST’s near-infrared view is a showcase of active star formation.

HOT BYTES

ASTRONOMERS FIND SIX PLANETS ORBITING IN RESONANCE • These half-dozen sub-Neptunes are an undisturbed treasure trove for understanding planet formation.

QUICK TAKES

Icy worlds’ secrets

A PLANET TOO BIG FOR ITS STAR

A LOONEY STAR

TELESCOPES UNITE

Cosmic cotton candy

Tropical Novaya Zemlya effects • Now you see me, now you don’t.

These are the ways OUR WORLD WILL END • Whether by the bang of a supernova or the whimper of a faltering magnetic field, Earth and everything on it is doomed. Sorry.

HOW ASTEROIDS COULD SAVE THE WORLD

ANATOMY OF A SOLAR STORM

THE END OF HABITABILITY

FREE-FLOATING BINARY ‘PLANETS’ BAFFLE THEORISTS • JWST found 40 Jupiter-mass objects with binary companions in the Orion Nebula. Now scientists have to figure out how they got there.

Enter the springtime sky • THE SOLAR SYSTEM’S CHANGING LANDSCAPE AS IT APPEARS IN EARTH’S SKY.

RISING MOON • Ticks on the timeline

METEOR WATCH • False dusk lingers

STAR DOME

PATHS OF THE PLANETS • This map unfolds the entire night sky from sunset (at right) until sunrise (at left). Arrows and colored dots show motions and locations of solar system objects during the month.

COMET SEARCH • Fine or fantastic?

LOCATING ASTEROIDS • From the city to galactic neighborhoods

‘RING OF FIRE’ blazes across the Americas • From city centers to scenic state parks, Astronomy editors caught October’s annular eclipse at sites across the American Southwest.

A MAGNIFICENT EVENT

PICTURE PERFECT

A personal Perseids story • This poignant tale of sharing the night sky won our 50th-anniversary contest — and a Celestron telescope.

The same sky

the amazing STELLARVUE 180MM REFRACTOR • This hand-crafted apochromat raises the bar for refinement in build and image quality.

ACHIEVING THE IDEAL IMAGING SETUP

What Messier missed • The best-known deep-sky catalog is far from definitive.

NEW PRODUCTS

Green stars

Cosmic portraits

BREAKTHROUGH

And then there were three

STAR DOME