SUNSET: 
December 5 - 11, 2011
[skyweekvid id="i314e1fl"]This week the Moon puts on the best sky show of the year for stargazers in the western U.S. — a total lunar eclipse. And we'll look at Jupiter, the king of the planets.
Sky & Telescope January 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES How Alien Astronomers Could Find Earth We could make it easier for our counterparts on distant planets to find evidence of our existence. But it would be a massive undertaking for us.By Joseph Lazio Hot Products for 2012 Cruise the editors' 27 picks for gear you might not…
November 28 - December 4, 2011
[skyweekvid id="bb5i2j5z"]As the Moon waxes to half lit, let's take a look at the brightest star in each section of the sky: Vega setting in the west, Fomalhaut cruising low over the southern horizon, and Capella rising in the east.
November 21 - 27, 2011
[skyweekvid id="qi36vwzp"]Thanksgiving week is new Moon week, allowing what might be our last good view of the summer Milky Way. Also, let's take a look at Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets.
S&T’s 70th Anniversary Video Is Here!
Watch a behind-the-scenes video of how S&T came to be and what it's like working at the magazine today.
Camille Carlisle
Camille M. Carlisle was an editorial intern at Sky & Telescope in 2008 and joined the staff as an assistant editor in 2011. In 2014 she took the moniker science editor. Beginning as an astronomy and astrophysics major at Villanova University, Camille soon discovered that her favorite part of physics…
Sky & Telescope December 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES Measuring Asteroids with Homemade Monsters Using home-built scopes of up to 32 inches, Bob Homes outdoes most of the world for tracking near-Earth asteroids. And he's just getting started.By Mike Lockwood Face to Face with a Giant NASA's new rover Curiosity will take Mars exploration to an entirely…
Video Interview with Alan MacRobert
Alan MacRobert discusses his career at Sky & Telescope and talks about what he loves at Sky.
Sky & Telescope November 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES The Moon & the Origin of Frankenstein An astronomical investigation may have solved a lingering mystery surrounding the origin of the classic horror novel.By Donald W. Olson et. al. Galaxy Zoo and the Wisdom of Crowds By turning to legions of citizen scientists, astronomers have gained new insights…
Beyond the Familiar Veil
We have received many compliments on Alan Whitman's article "Beyond the Familiar Veil" in the September 2011 issue of Sky & Telescope. However, we made an error by using red to mark the areas of the Veil that Whitman observed, making the article unusable by red flashlight at night. Here's a black-and-white replacement.
Interactive Sky Chart Restored
The Interactive Sky Chart is now working again after a 2-month hiatus.
Sky & Telescope September 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES The Battle to Control Light Pollution There's never been a better time than now to make the case for preserving the night sky.By Bob Parks Peering Beneath Jupiter's Clouds NASA's Juno mission will give scientists their first in-depth view of Jupiter's deep interior.By Jon Zander Going Against the…
Interactive Sky Chart is Available Again
Our popular Interactive Sky Chart is available again.
Astronomy in Motion
Welcome to Astronomy in Motion, videos, time-lapse movies, and animations showing astronomical subjects as they change and move across the sky. Skyscapes An Amazing Aurora Video by Ole Salomonsen. A Milky Way Masterpiece by South Dakota farmer Randy Halvorson. The Solar System The Grimsby Fireball imaged by the Southern Ontario…
Video Interview with Robert Naeye
Robert Naeye discusses his career at Sky & Telescope and talks about what he loves at Sky.
Video Interview with Tony Flanders
Tony Flanders talks about his job at Sky & Telescope and the strange sequence of events that led him to work for Sky.
Sky & Telescope June 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES The Great Telescope Race In the 19th century, the U.S. changed from a backwater to an astronomical juggernaut.By Trudy E. Bell The AAVSO's New Sky Survey Star magnitudes in deep catalogs are currently unreliable. The AAVSO aims to fix that.By Arne Henden The Far Country The Serpent's head…
Astronomy in Antarctica
Observational astronomy has always been a romantic, rigorous profession. Caroline Herschel recorded her brother's observations by candlelight, shivering through the damp British winter. Edwin Hubble and Walter Baade spent long, cold, hours peering through a guidescope, keeping the giant telescope on Mount Wilson on track as it took the pictures…
Video Interview with Pat Coppola
Pat Coppola discusses her background in illustration and how she uses her creativity to produce a magazine that is both accurate and beautiful.
Video Interview with Sean Walker
Sean Walker talks about his job at Sky & Telescope and how he started astrophotography.
