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Total Solar Eclipse

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Experience the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse with S&T in Wyoming!

Wondering where to go to witness next year's total solar eclipse? Sky & Telescope is proud to offer a newly developed tour based in eastern Wyoming.

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Inside the November 2016 Issue

Sky & Telescope celebrates 75 years with a special anniversary issue! Find out how it all began and catch the highlights of astronomy over the decades.

Sky & Telescope October 2016

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Inside the October 2016 Issue

PURCHASE PRINT ISSUE | PURCHASE DIGITAL ISSUE | PURCHASE BACK ISSUES | SUBSCRIBE Shedding Light on Pluto, Finding Life on Mars New Horizons' flight past Pluto last year revealed a stunning world we couldn't have dreamed up — now scientists are sifting through the data, trying to make sense of…

Northern Lights Iceland

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Last Chance for Iceland Auroras with Sky & Telescope

Iceland is a country full of fascinating contradictions, none so mysterious as its aurora. Come explore with Sky & Telescope in October 2016!

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Inside the September 2016 Issue

The minute distortions of weak gravitational lensing may hold the key to dark matter and dark energy, Big Data promises — and threatens — to overrun astronomy, and videography just got a whole lot easier.

Eta Carinae

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A 3D View of Eta Carinae

New research on Eta Carinae featured in S&T's October 2016 issue lets you peer in and around Eta Carinae's Homunculus Nebula.

Northern Lights Iceland

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Experience Iceland with S&T!

Join Sky & Telescope Observing Editor JR Johnson-Roehr in Iceland and see the aurora borealis.

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Inside the August 2016 Issue

As August rolls around, it will soon be time for the yearly show of the Perseid meteor shower. And this year the show could be even better than usual, maybe even spectacular. Pick up the issue to find out why

Reference fields for relativity test

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My Do-It-Yourself Relativity Test

Here's an update on an amateur astronomer's amazing effort to prove that Einstein really was right during next year's total solar eclipse.

Sky & Telescope July 2016

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Inside the July 2016 Issue

Sky & Telescope's July issue reveals the mysteries of Fast Radio Bursts, previews Juno's mission to Jupiter, explores the depths of Aquila's nebulae, and much more.

Strange Night Sights

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Join S&T in Iceland This October

Have you ever seen the aurora borealis? Want to join us? Read on for more information on our next trip to Iceland to see the Northern Lights!

S&T's Zenith Club

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Join S&T’s Brand-New Zenith Club

A handy S&T field kit and access to iTelescope.Net are just two great benefits of membership.

Mink 1-65 Planetary Nebula

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Minkowski Planetary Nebulae

Looking for an observing challenge? An expert observer offers advice for exploring the Minkowski catalog of planetary nebulae.

Hercules Galaxy Cluster.

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Hercules Galaxy Cluster: Going Deep

To aid your observing endeavor, Contributing Editor Steve Gottlieb has provided an expanded table of galaxies, with their position angles, visual magnitudes, size, and positions.

Title page of C. E. Barns's 1001 Celestial Wonders, 1931 edition.

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More from C. E. Barns's 1001 Celestial Wonders

Here is Jim Mullaney's much longer sample of objects from this delightful 1927 amateur-astronomy guide, in order of right ascension, followed by more illustrations of the book.

globular cluster IMF01 at 12 Gyr

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Beyond the Printed Page: Globular Cluster Simulations

Watch a million stars age in these prize-winning simulations of globular clusters. The simulations track the stars' movements and evolution over 12 billion years.

Northern Lights, South Iceland

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Join S&T in Iceland, See the Northern Lights

Join Sky & Telescope Observing Editor JR Johnson-Roehr for our fourth annual trip to Iceland to see the northern lights.

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Inside the June 2016 Issue

Is red light the best for night? What are Trojan asteroids, and does Earth have such a companion? How can you spot the moons of Mars? The June issue answers these questions and many more.

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Top 10 Things I Wasn't Expecting in Iceland

This coming October 2-8, 2016, in concert with Spears Travel, S&T will run its 4th annual trip to Iceland to witness the famed northern lights. For details, see the full itinerary. If you’re already set to book it, do so here. When I joined Sky & Telescope's 3rd annual trip…

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Inside the May 2016 Issue

Learn the ancient stories behind the constellations and find out what the future holds for adaptive optics. Plus, see Mercury cross the Sun on May 9th!