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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.

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Where is the universe heading?

by James S. Trefil

To find out how it all ends, scientists need to understand what makes up the universe.

This story is the 2007 winner of the American Institute of Physics' Science Writing Award for a Scientist. You can read this story here.

Online extra: Cosmology's telescopes

To answer big questions, scientists need to think big about their observing tools.

Cassini unveils Saturn

by Alfred S. McEwen

Nearly 2 years into its extraordinary mission, NASAт??s Cassini spacecraft reveals the ringed planetт??s secrets.

Online extra: What's next for Cassini

The Cassini mission has already delivered fantastic images and groundbreaking science. Here's what's planned for its second act.

Witness to cosmic collisions

by Robert Zimmerman

NASAт??s Swift mission has helped astronomers solve the 35-year-old mystery of what causes short gamma-ray bursts.

Online extra: Searching for GRBs

Since the 1960s, various spacecraft have contributed to the current body of gamma-ray burst knowledge.

Spiders from Mars

by Francis Reddy

Dark, branching patterns on Marsт?? south pole link the planetт??s climate to its most prominent landforms.

Online extra: Mars' south polar zoo

Spiders are just one of many strange landforms at the martian south pole.

Discover great nebulae in Cygnus

by Steve Coe

Glowing gas and dark dust mingle in spectacular ways among the Swanт??s star clouds.

Online extra: See more sights in the Swan

Enjoy a variety of stunning nebulae in Cygnus.

A southern-sky Messier Catalog

by Michael E. Bakich

From south of the equator, you can observer 152 Bennett objects as impressive as the best in the north.

Online extra: Southern deep-sky treats

Use this printable list to target some spectacular celestial objects.

Solar eclipse trips

by Michael E. Bakich, David J. Eicher, Richard Talcott

Astronomy editors view the Sunт??s corona from two Mediterranean locations.

Online extra: Mediterranean tour gallery

See the sites from Astronomy's tour of the Mediterranean while chasing the March 29 eclipse.

Designed to shoot the sky

by Jack B. Newton

Canonт??s EOS 20Da camera sets a new standard for astrophotography.

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