Astronomy Magazine

Astronomy is a monthly magazine from the United States that focuses on the wonders of astronomy. Aimed at amateur astronomers, it features sections on stargazing, showcases astrophotographs submitted by readers, and includes articles on astronomy and astrophysics that are easy for anyone to understand, even those without a science background.

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This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: Venus in the Morning Sky

3 days ago | astronomy.com | David Eicher

Skip to content In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out before sunrise and view brilliant Venus. The planet, which is only outshone by the Sun or the Moon, will lie low in the eastern sky. It will rise and hour or so before the Sun.
PUNCH sees first light

6 days ago | astronomy.com | Alison Klesman

NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched March 12, sending up a constellation of four Earth-orbiting satellites with the goal of studying how the Sun’s activity influences the space environment around Earth. This week, the four satellites opened their cameras to the sky and captured their so-called first light images in a major milestone for the mission.
A dark, dusty pillar stretches across re-released Hubble image

6 days ago | astronomy.com | Samantha Hill

Looking like a bird ready to take flight from atop a post, this dusty filament within the Eagle Nebula was recently captured in intricate detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. Also known as M16, this nebula lies some 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens the Serpent and surrounds an open star cluster. This pillar of cold gas and dust stretches 9.5 light-years long and is composed of cold hydrogen gas, which serves as material to create new stars.
Astronomers find a rare 'dark galaxy' within our Local Group

6 days ago | astronomy.com | John Wenz

Be careful out there, astronomers: There could be a dark galaxy in our midst. In research published today in Science Advances, researchers from the Chinese National Academy of Sciences discovered that a fast-moving cloud of gas near the Milky Way may not be a cloud at all, but rather a small galaxy made mostly of dark matter. AC G185.0-11.5 is part of the larger AC-I Complex, which is what astronomers call a high-velocity cloud (HVC).
The Sky This Week from April 18 to 25: The Lyrid meteor shower peaks

6 days ago | astronomy.com | Alison Klesman

A Lyrid meteor streaks near the Milky Way arching overhead, as seen from Wawona, Yosemite National Park. Credit: bgwashburn (Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, April 18Jupiter still rules the early-evening skies, standing prominently in Taurus in the west as darkness falls.
K2-18 b could have dimethyl sulfide in its air. But is it a sign of life?

1 week ago | astronomy.com | Mark Zastrow

Scientists have reported new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that strengthen the case that the exoplanet K2-18 b has molecules in its atmosphere that, on Earth, are produced only by life. The work, announced Wednesday, builds on previous observations from JWST published in 2023 by the same team that yielded weak hints of the molecule dimethyl sulfide (DMS) on K2-18 b, a planet that the team thinks could be covered with a global ocean.
Blue Origin flies Katy Perry, Gayle King, and other customers to space

1 week ago | astronomy.com | Jack Daleo |Gayle King

On Monday morning, an all-female group of civilians including pop star Katy Perry and award-winning broadcast journalist Gayle King flew to the edge of space and back. Perry, King, and four others were selected as the crew of Blue Origin’s New Shepard Mission 31 (NS-31), which launched at 9:30 a.m. EDT from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas. NS-31 was Blue Origin’s 11th crewed mission and the first spaceflight to fly with only women since 1963, according to the company.
JWST spots the earliest galaxy yet clearing the universe's hydrogen 'fog'

1 week ago | astronomy.com | John Wenz

Since it began collecting data, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shined a light on the early universe, helping us better understand the timeline of events that led to our modern-day cosmos. In a paper published March 26 in Nature, a University of Copenhagen-led team reports finding a galaxy right at a crucial moment in the early universe known as the Epoch of Reionization.
This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: A conjunction of planets

1 week ago | astronomy.com | David Eicher

Skip to content In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and view a close grouping of planets in the early morning hours of April 21. That morning, you’ll be able to see Venus, Mercury, and Saturn low in the east. You won’t need a telescope or binoculars to view them, just use your eyes.
No relief for astronomy industry in new tariff exemptions

1 week ago | astronomy.com | Mark Zastrow

Exceptions announced today to the Trump administration’s so-called “reciprocal tariffs” are unlikely to provide any relief to the amateur astronomy industry, as they do not cover categories for telescopes, mounts, or digital cameras. The updated guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) affects the reciprocal tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on April 9.