The editors of Sky & Telescope make every effort to provide accurate information, but errors do sometimes slip through. We correct all mistakes online as well as printing corrections in the magazine. So if you see something questionable in the magazine, check below to see if it's a known problem.

This article lists all known errors in issues of Sky & Telescope for 2024. See also the errata listings for other years.

May 2024

Page 19: The Crab Nebula is roughly 600 years older than Cassiopeia A, not 1,500 years older.

June 2024

Page 10: In "Firm Evidence for a Neutron Star in Supernova 1987A," the image in the bottom-right panel shows quintuply ionized argon atoms, not triply ionized. The original image is available at https://is.gd/SN1987A_argon.

July 2024

Page 55: In "Great Balls of Fire," NGC 6207 was cropped out of the image of M13. The much-fainter galaxy above M13 that remains is IC 4617.

August 2024

Page 37: Atoms don’t have rotational or vibrational states, so they can’t store energy that way — only molecules do and can.

September 2024

Page 72: Mars reaches opposition on January 16th, not January 12th as shown in the graph. Also the graph does not include magnitude information, contrary to what is stated in the caption.

October 2024

Page 59: Herbig-Haro objects vary on time scales of a few years, not days.

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