8 GLITTERING STAR CLUSTERS: TAKE A TOUR Explore their science and splendour this month

#186 NOVEMBER 2020

Sky at Night Sky at Night

THE UK’S BEST SELLING ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE

SPECIAL REPORT

LIFE ON LIFE ON VENUS?VENUS?

We assess the evidence and ask, if there really is life what would it be like

THE ISS AT 20 After two decades of occupation, what next for the orbiting outpost?

MAKETHEMOSTOFMARS Now past opposition, the Red Planet remains an unmissable sight

TICKETTORIDE Want to get to space? Here's how you can

THEQUEEN'SAEROPLANE And other wide-field sights

to see with binoculars

DOUBLE STAR DANCE The exoplanets in orbit

around binary suns