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Free Astronomy Magazine – May-June 2025 Issue Available For Reading And Download

Above: A highly cropped view of RCW 38, featured in an ESO article in the current issue, and which I'll need to plan a trip far south to ever see for myself. Image from https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2503/.

The most recent issue of Free Astronomy Magazine (May-June 2025) is available for your reading and downloading pleasure in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and Arabic at www.astropublishing.com (and facebook).

Another edition heavy on content provided by major astronomical observatories and agencies (original content still in the works). As always, an excellent collection and afternoon read.

We hear/read a lot about the recent feats of the James Webb Space Telescope, from which is remain warming (just slightly, in the interest of detector sensitivity) to read how the data from Hubble Space Telescope continues to complement the science and analysis being performed by Webb, such as in the NASA articles "Webb peers deeper into mysterious Flame Nebula" and "Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter."

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Free Astronomy Magazine – November-December 2024 Issue Available For Reading And Download

Above: Among other events to look forward to, 2025 should be excellent for more aurora with our Sun being in/just past solar max. Even lousy fish-eye lens aurora pics from the light polluted near-suburbs of Rochester with no forethought into optimizing the capture should still be completely reasonable this coming year.

The most recent issue of Free Astronomy Magazine (November-December 2024) is available for your reading and downloading pleasure in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and Arabic at www.astropublishing.com (and facebook).

Running past the finishing line for the year with a slew of exceptionally well-presented NASA, ESA, CSA, ESO, and NOIRLab articles that go from the Kitt Peak Visitor Center to Barnard’s Star to the very, very edge of it all.

Also looking into 2025 for notable space and space science missions, for which Suni and Butch's return to Earth is a major event for the household (as Suni's tour of the ISS was on our dinner playlist for months), ESA's BepiColumbo will finally settle into Mercury's orbit in early December, NASA's own Lucy will be flying by asteroid Donaldjohanson (get it?) in late April, and a bunch of other missions will be reaching milestones.

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Free Astronomy Magazine – September-October 2021 Issue Available For Reading And Download

Above: This artist’s impression shows the dust and gas around the double star system GG Tauri-A. Researchers using ALMA have detected gas in the region between two discs in this binary system. This may allow planets to form in the gravitationally perturbed environment of the binary. Half of Sun-like stars are born in binary systems, meaning that these findings will have major consequences for the hunt for exoplanets. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

The most recent issue of Free Astronomy Magazine (September-October 2021) is available for your reading and downloading pleasure at www.astropublishing.com.

This issue features our fearless leader Michele Ferrara providing all of the original content (as I prepared for and adjusted to fatherhood x 2) among the selection of articles spanning the range from frozen snow balls in our own solar system to the evolution of the whole universe.

Browser-readable version: www.astropublishing.com/5FAM2021/

Jump to the PDF download (14.7 MB): September-October 2021