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Astronomy

July 2024

  • Starwatch chart

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: moon will obscure brightest star in Virgo

  • Footage shared on social media showed the moment a meteor lit up the night sky

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    Meteor flashes across night sky in northern Turkey – video

  • T Coronae Borealis star system

    ‘Once-in-a-lifetime event’: rare chance to see explosion on dwarf star 3,000 light years away

  • Monday's Starwatch

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: A 2,600-year wait to see T Coronae Borealis explosion

June 2024

  • Starwatch 23 June

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: The moon heads for Saturn in the early hours

  • A galaxy (Photograph: ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA Wire)

    Science Weekly
    A black hole awakens and why some people avoid Covid: the week in science – podcast

  • A gassy disc of glowing orange light, with a bright white spot in the centre, in space

    Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun

  • St Mary's Lighthouse is silhouetted against the sky

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Noctilucent clouds are a great summer spectacle

  • Is there life on one of Saturn’s moons? Scientists plan a mission to find out

  • Early morning frost spotted on some of Mars’s huge mountains

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: The moon moves into a nice conjunction with star Spica

  • ‘We’re trying to find the shape of space’: scientists wonder if the universe is like a doughnut

  • Carbon detected in galaxy observed 350m years after big bang

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Get to know the Great Diamond asterism

  • Night-time is an intoxicating new land: how learning to love the dark eased my grief

  • ‘Once in a lifetime’: UK and European space scientists urged to join Nasa mission to Uranus

May 2024

  • The sun and Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

    Six planets to appear in alignment next week in rare celestial parade

  • Stars photographed by the James Webb space telescope, with an inset picture of a magnified galaxy

    James Webb space telescope photographs most distant known galaxy

  • starwatch

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: The moon passes Saturn in the dawn twilight

  • An artist’s rendition of Gliese 12b and its star

    Potentially habitable planet size of Earth discovered 40 light years away

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