Your Guide to the Universe

Current Issue: September/October 2016

In this issue, get the latest on the search for a large, unseen planet some astronomers think is lurking in the Kuiper Belt, and meet pioneering 19th-century British astronomer Elizabeth Brown, who traveled to Russia to study a solar eclipse.

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• Merlin answers your most compelling questions about the universe

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In our next issue, see how an eclipse influenced a presidential election more than a century ago, and get up to date on Eta Carina, a closely studied star that could explode as a supernova.

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