SUNSET: 
The Battle to Control Light Pollution
Listen to a podcast interview with Bob Parks, exceutive director of the International Dark-Sky Association.
The AAVSO Turns 100
Watch an video interview with AAVSO s Director Arne Henden on their upcoming 100th anniversary.
Planetary Sentinel
Anthony Wesley poses with his scope. Wesley is famous for discovering two impacts on Jupiter in the past year.Anthony Wesley In the past two years, Australian amateur astrophotographer Anthony Wesley has discovered not one, but two impacts on Jupiter. That’s two more than the entire worldwide community of professional astronomers…
Peering Beneath Jupiter's Clouds
Scott Bolton is principal investigator of NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter.NASA Sometime in August, NASA’s next major interplanetary mission — Juno — will ride into space atop an Atlas V551 rocket. It’s destination is mighty Jupiter, the King of the Planets. Juno will go into orbit around the gas giant…
Sky & Telescope August 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES The Exoplanets that Weren't Misadventures in planet discovery have continued from 1855 through the present time.By Brandon Tingley Pummeling the Planets Scientists are debating whether the entire solar system suffered a barrage of impacts long after the planets formed.By Emily Lakdawalla NEAF Turns 20 The annual Northeast Astronomy…
Video: Evolution of the Solar System
In 2004, four leading dynamicists met in the seaside city of Nice, France, to try to address unsolved problems in the early evolution of the solar system. Several weeks of intensive work and computer programming produced a model that has been widely cited in the planetary science literature, and which…
SDO Captures Solar Flare March 19, 2011
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this beautiful solar flare over a period of roughly five hours on March 19, 2011. The loop grew to several dozen times Earth's size before erupting into outer space. See the SDO Gallery for more images and movies.
S&T: 70 Years and Counting . . .
Tony FlandersWe will have a complete video discussing Sky & Telescope's history in time for its 70-year anniversary in November 2011. Meanwhile, here are interviews with some of the editors discussing their roles in the magazine: Tony Flanders Alan MacRobert Robert Naeye Sean Walker Pat Coppola
Sky & Telescope Videos
Many topics in astronomy are ideally explained in print — but not all. For instance, it's a lot easier to show how to use a telescope than to put it into words. And watching an author talk about an abstruse topic often helps bring it to life. Below you'll find…
Sky & Telescope July 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES Sketching M51 For seeing all that's in the eyepiece, nothing beats sketching.By Howard Banich Where the Hot Stuff Is Volcanism takes a variety of forms on other worlds.By Rosaly Lopes Neptune Comes Full Circle Neptune's discovery is one of the greatest stories in astronomy lore.By C. Renée James…
Where The Hot Stuff Is
Rosaly LopesEarth might be the only world in the solar system with complex life, but it certainly isn’t the only world that has experienced volcanism. Thanks to interplanetary missions, scientists have discovered that Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, Io, Enceladus, and maybe Titan have experienced volcanic activity. Io and Enceladus…
Great Red Spot Transit Table 2012-2013
Transit times for Jupiter's Great Red Spot are listed through December 2012.
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…
Sky & Telescope May 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES Orion's Robo Dobsonian Good things happen when Go To pointing meets a mass-market Dobsonian.By Gary Seronik Spiinning Hearts of Darkness Astronomers are measuring the rotation rates of black holes to determine their formation and history.By Laura Brenneman End of the Cosmic Dark Ages A novel radio array may…
Video: Laura Brenneman on Black Holes
Laura Brenneman, author of the article "Spinning Hearts of Darkness" in the May 2011 issue of Sky & Telescope, discusses the surprising subtleties of black-hole spin with S&T's Robert Naeye.
Sky & Telescope April 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES Star Trails from the Top of the World TWAN ambassadors host star parties and photograph the night sky in Nepal's High Himalaya.By Babak A. Tafreshi Photometry for All in the Digital Age You can make valuable scientific contributions to astronomy with an off-the-shelf digital camera.By Brian Kloppenborg and…
Sky & Telescope March 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES Astronomy's Crystal Ball A recent report will set the research agenda for the coming decade.By Robert Zimmerman Binocular Sights for City Nights Plan well, and even a light-polluted sky offers rewards for binocular astronomy.By Hugh Bartlett It's a Duesy Here's the tale of how a nearly forgotten telescope…
Sky & Telescope February 2011
FEATURED ARTICLES The Perfect Solar Superstorm Solar storms in 1859 wreaked havoc on telegraph networks worldwide and produced auoras nearly to the equator. What would a recurrence do to our modern technological world?By Daniel N. Baker & James L. Green Solar Radio Astronomy It's relatively easy to observe the Sun…
Sky & Telescope Errata: 2011
This article lists all known errors in issues of Sky & Telescope for 2011.
