Your Guide to the Universe

StarDate keeps you in touch with the universe with detailed skywatching information, in-depth features, the latest astronomy news, and more. Six 24-page issues per year, including the Sky Almanac issue in January! Subscribe today and we'll start your subscription with this issue!

Current Issue: September/October 2010

Comet Cloud-y Skies

A giant cloud of comets surrounds our solar system, but no one has ever seen it.

Wrong-Way Planets

Are the many newly found extrasolar planets that orbit their parent stars against the grain simply aberrations, or could they be telling us something fundamental about planets in the Milky Way?

In Every Issue

• Skywatching highlights and star charts to help you keep tabs on the sky
• Merlin answers your most compelling questions about the universe

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In Future Issues

In the next issue of StarDate, look back on the astronomy research carried out over three decades by the space shuttle program as it draws to a close. Comet and meteor expert Gary Kronk returns to discuss the popular hysteria surrounding the appearance of comets in past centuries.