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Astronomy

November 2026

  • Star chart showing Pegasus, Andromeda, Pisces constellations and Saturn's position on 9 November

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Count these stars to find out how dark the sky is where you are

  • Astronomer Pete Richardson points at the night sky beside a telescope as two children watch

    ‘Mind-blowing’: dark-sky fans gather on Exmoor to see what light pollution hides

  • A composite image shows countless satellite trails streaking above Mount Taranaki, New Zealand

    The night-sky image so incredible the NZ man behind it has been accused of using AI

  • Artist's rendering of the Swift Observatory satellite orbiting above Earth's horizon

    Nasa telescope launched in 2004 to plunge back to Earth after failed rescue mission

  • A job that changed me
    A job that changed me: I ran observatory tours as a student. An eight-year-old’s question taught me two important lessons

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Catch the striking trifecta of Venus, the moon and Spica at break of dawn

  • It’s snow time: the best winter activity holidays in Europe for non-skiers

October 2026

  • Graphic illustration of the Pegasus constellation

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Bright stars of Pegasus make this distinctive constellation easy to see

  • The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

    Astronomers challenge dating of Van Gogh’s Starry Night

  • A star chart shows Mars near the Beehive cluster in the constellation Cancer

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Mars signposts the beautiful Beehive cluster

  • MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa.

    Astronomers detect mysterious burst of energy from a galaxy far, far away

  • The age of extinction
    Tents, night-vision goggles and bear tracking kits: America’s first nature library opens

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: how to spot Saturn as it makes it closest approach to Earth this year

  • Alone with the stars, lynx and wolves in ‘Empty Spain’

September 2026

  • Starwatch map

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Tracking down the faint stars of Pisces

  • A photograph of Enceladus in space, a marbled white moon with streaks of blue

    Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean

  • People on a hill watching the sun set

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Autumnal equinox in northern hemisphere, spring in the south

  • Illustration of a black hole's glowing ring tearing apart a star with erupting debris

    ‘Very messy eaters’: scientists solve the mystery of when black holes ‘burp’

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: A Venus-spotting challenge with a beautiful reward

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Waning crescent moon gets close to brilliant beacon of Jupiter

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