Sky & Telescope September 2024 Magazine

In the September 2024 issue of Sky & Telescope, we take you behind the scenes of the lives of comets. Where did they come from? Where do they end up? We’ll guide you along their exciting journey through time and space, starting with their remote beginnings in the Oort Cloud. Speaking of the Kuiper Belt, we also dive into the discovery of this region of icy bodies beyond Neptune, how it got its name — and why it might be up for a rebranding. Then we move on to even more distant objects: exoplanets. We’re taking a look at when and how we’ll find habitable worlds outside our solar system. As we develop bigger and better telescopes, we may soon be able to photograph these far-off worlds directly. But until we can see that deeply, we can photograph all the fantastic objects we can already see in the sky, like Stephan’s Quintet (not a bad deal we’d say). And this month, we have a guide on how you can do so from the comfort of your living room.