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October 2006

The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each monthly issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color photography, complete sky coverage, spot-on observing tips, informative telescope reviews, and much more! All this in an easy-to-understand, user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level.

Features

The new search for distant planets

by Geoff Marcy

At 200 exoplanets and counting, astronomers are much closer to discovering worlds that might resemble our own.

Online extra: Everything you need to know about exoplanets

by Richard Talcott

Astronomers have found more than 200 planet candidates circling stars other than the Sun. Here's the scoop on the currently known planets.

How do you make a giant exoplanet?

by Alan P. Boss

Scientists endlessly debate theories of how giant planets form, but only observations will settle the question.

Online extra: Growing exoplanets

by Francis Reddy

Computer models help astronomers understand how planets form.

Planets without suns

by Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio

Isolated giant planets, unbound to any star, may be the Milky Wayт??s most common worlds.

Atlas of extrasolar planets

by Richard Talcott, Lynette Cook

The worlds beyond our solar system show a rich diversity no one suspected.

Where is life hiding?

by Margaret Turnbull

Location holds the key to finding extraterrestrial life.

The most important cosmologist youт??ve never heard of

by Steve Nadis

Henry Tye transforms cosmology as inflationт??s unsung hero. His latest pursuit: Where did our universe come from?

The sharpest image

by Mike D. Reynolds

Put away your eyeglasses. Tele Vueт??s DioptRx lenses correct astigmatism.

Shooting through the light

by James R. Foster

Learn how one astroimager succeeds in a light-polluted sky.

Online extra: Urban astroimaging delights

by Laura Layton

One astroimager proves you can attain striking astroimages despite living under a light-polluted sky.

Head of the glass

by Phil Harrington

Ease of use and terrific optics place the Stellarvue SV4 high on any observerт??s want list.

Online extra: October 2006 book reviews

One astroimager proves you can attain striking astroimages despite living under a light-polluted sky.

Departments

This month in Astronomy

Beautiful universe

Letters

Bob Berman's strange universe

Space-travel woes

Glenn Chaple's observing basics

The dumbbell overhead

Phil Harrington's binocular universe

Mr. October

Online extra: Finding Neptune

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The sky this month

A lunar dip through the Pleiades

Ask Astro

Is it a coincidence that most of the planets fall within the Titius-Bode law's boundaries?

What is meant by the term "flat universe"?

How do astronomers determine the ages of stars?

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