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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

A wrinkle in space-time confirms Einstein's gravitation

by Korey Haynes, Eric Betz

Astronomers have finally found gravitational waves. Now things can get interesting.

Web Extra: A century of gravitational waves

Hot results from a cool planet

by S. Alan Stern

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft revealed Pluto as a world of stark beauty and complex geology.

What's blowing bubbles in the Milky Way?

by Liz Kruesi

Strange hourglass lobes extend 25,000 light-years on either side of our galaxy's center.

Meet the next generation space telescope

by Korey Haynes

Using the High Definition Space Telescope, astronomers hope to discover life in the universe.

Observe Mars at its best

by Michael E. Bakich

The brightness of our celestial neighbor will have you seeing red through your scope this spring.

10 tempting spring binocular targets

by Phil Harrington

Find a seahorse and a stargate among these playful targets.

How to view Mercury's rare transit

by Richard Talcott

On May 9, the innermost planet appears in silhouette against the Sun's disk for the first time in nearly a decade.

35 favorite double stars

by Michael E. Bakich

Target these binary beauties, and you'll be seeing double all year long.

We test Denkmeier's 3-D eyepieces

by Mike Reynolds

This pair of eyepieces will bring a whole new depth to your observing.

Columns

Where are the stars?

by Bob Berman

Layer upon layer

by Jeff Hester

Are we there yet?

by Glenn Chaple

Listen to the stars

by Stephen James O'Meara

Transit of Mercury

by Erika Rix

Data and doughnuts

by Adam Block

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