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August 2022

August 2022

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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

How Juno unmasked Jupiter

by Ben Evans

NASA’s plucky probe has brought us unprecedented views of the solar system’s biggest planet, from its enigmatic aurorae to its dramatic storms.

Catch Pluto this summer

by Michael E. Bakich

Planet or not, Pluto is a worthy target.

Scopes for city dwellers

by Phil Harrington

Don’t let bright lights prevent you from exploring cosmic sights.

The strange case of the eyeball planets

by Michael Carroll

These tidally locked worlds could be the key to finding life in the universe — if they exist.

Capturing the Moon in high res

by Leo Aerts, Klaus R. Brasch

The digital revolution has enabled amateur astronomers to take crisp, clear images that would have been the envy of professionals just a few decades ago.

The star that changed the cosmos

by Rod Pommier

An astroimager follows in Edwin Hubble’s footsteps to prove the utter vastness of our universe using a single star.

Columns

Black as night

by Bob Berman

Volcanic twilights

by Stephen James O'Meara

Poniatowski’s Bull

by Phil Harrington

Safely observe the Sun

by Glenn Chaple

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