SUNSET: 
Comet 252P/LINEAR Soars Into Predawn View This Week
A nearby comet is moving into view for Northern Hemisphere skywatchers. Despite bright moonlight nearby, you can try to spot it with binoculars and Sky & Telescope's exclusive finder chart.
Citizen Science for the Great American Solar Eclipse
Solar scientists hope an armada of amateur astrophotographers can record the inner corona’s evolution throughout the 2017 total solar eclipse.
Kavli Q&A: How Do Planets Form?
Learn how powerful new telescopes and techniques are enabling scientists to probe planets in the earliest stages of development.
How To Get a Glimpse of Omega Centauri
Among globular clusters, the immense Omega Centauri is widely regarded as the most impressive in the sky. Its deep southern location makes this object challenging to spot — but it can be done, as Italian observer Giuseppe Pappa explains.
Ripple Effect: Gravitational Waves Begin to Reveal a Hidden Universe
To mark the start of a new era of astronomy, three principal LIGO researchers speak with The Kavli Foundation on their epic discovery and how it will transform the way we see the cosmos.
The Kavli Foundation Q&A: How Does Citizen Science Drive Discovery?
Crowd-sourcing the universe: Thanks to online portals, legions of volunteer astronomers are turning their eyes to the sky and doing extraordinary science. Three scientists discuss the future of citizen astronomy.
LighTrack II Portable Camera Tracking Head
Fornax Mounts announces the LighTrack II, a portable camera tracking head for nightscape astrophotography.
Get Ready for America's Coast-to-Coast Total Solar Eclipse in 2017
Where will you be on August 21, 2017 - when a total solar eclipse will be seen from Oregon to South Carolina? Find out what you need to know now to start planning for the big event.
Vixen Optics Ultra Wide Eyepieces
The SSW Ultra Wide Eyepiece series ($349 each) provides an expansive 83° apparent field of view with eye relief of 13 mm.
How and When to See Five Planets at Once
During the next two weeks, for the first time in 11 years, you can see all of the naked-eye planets — from Mercury to Saturn — together in the predawn sky.
Teeter's Telescopes Custom Dobsonian
Teeter's Telescopes unveils its latest custom Dobsonian telescope, the 16-inch f/4.5 TT/Stark (starting at $2,575 without optics).
iKon-XL Large-Format CCD Camera
Andor announces the iKon-XL, a large-format CCD camera ideally suited for large instruments.
Explore Scientific Carrying Case
Explore Scientific announces new soft-sided carrying cases for their telescopes.
Stargazer's Corner: Adventures Under the Night Sky
High School Student Discovers New Exoplanet
Dominick Rowan, a senior in the Science Research program at Byram Hills High School in New York, helped discover a Jupiter-mass exoplanet in a 6.5-year orbit around its star and calculate the frequency of Jupiter analogs in other systems.
Meteor Showers in 2016
Sky & Telescope predicts that the two best meteor showers in 2016 will be the Quadrantids in early January and the Perseids in mid-August.
What to See with Your New Telescope (December 2015)
Thousands of telescopes are given and received as gifts during the holidays. But once you've assembled your new treasure, then what? Moon, stars, planets? The editors of Sky & Telescope magazine point the way.
Breakthrough! Imaging history
Premier astro-imagers Robert Gendler and R. Jay GaBany team up in their latest work, Breakthrough!, which highlights 100 of the most relevant photographic images of astronomy.
Geminid Meteors Will Dazzle on December 13th and 14th
If it’s clear this coming Sunday and Monday nights, keep a lookout high overhead for the "shooting stars" of the Geminid meteor shower.
Participate in Hubble Exoplanet Collaboration
Take part in a collaborative project that will unite amateur and Hubble Space Telescope observations to better characterize nearby exoplanets.
Feather Touch 3.5-inch Dual Speed Focuser
This rack-and-pinion focuser adds additional stability and precision to the legendary Takahashi FSQ-106ED astrograph.
