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January 2005

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 year in astronomy

by Francis Reddy

Water in Marsт?? past, a comet flyby, and the first Neptune-size exoplanets yet — these and other astronomy stories made headlines in 2004.

Second light

by Steve Nadis

Although the first stars born after the Big Bang are long gone, astronomers hope to find a few remaining relics of the second generation.

NASA's visionary

by William Schomaker

Director of NASAт??s Astronomy and Physics Division, Anne Kinney has gone from small-town Wisconsin to big-time extragalactic space exploration.

Luciferт??s planets

Astronomers have detected two small planets, roughly Neptuneт??s size, orbiting normal stars. They could be ice-giant planets or rocky super-Earths — the first seen outside our solar system.

Lure of the Pleiades

by Raymond Shubinski

This beautiful star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters, has captivated human imagination throughout history, but figuring out whatт??s going on in this region of space takes top-notch science.

Coronadoт??s Personal Solar Telescope

by Jeff Medkeff

Offering fantastic views of the Sun at a great price, this may be the solar scope youт??ve dreamed about.

Orionт??s IntelliScope XT10

by Adrian R. Ashford

This 10-inch telescope sells for less than $700 and has a Dobsonian mount that accepts a computerized object locator.

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