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December 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

Inside the universe’s biggest blasts

Type Ia supernovae serve as vital distance indicators that show how our cosmos is expanding. But these events are still shrouded in mystery.

Apollo’s last dance

As political support for Moon landings waned, the crew of Apollo 17 ensured the program ended on a scientific high.

See Mars at its finest

There’s no better time to explore the Red Planet’s surface with your telescope.

Meet Eclipse Traveler

Your guide to the greatest eclipses on Earth.

Top 10 astronomy books of all time

Often leading to paradigm shifts in how we understand the universe, these classic works endure.

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