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16 September 2025

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Ten-Year Lease Extension Confirmed at Herstmonceux Observatory

18 August 2025

The announcement, on 18 August, follows a year of uncertainty after Queen’s University Canada declared that the lease to the current operators of the science centre, Science Projects, would not be renewed after December 2026.
Venus and Jupiter’s bright morning conjunction

10 August 2025
It’s time again for Perseid meteors!

8 August 2025
Lonely giant planets may form their own planetary systems

30 July 2025

Venus and Jupiter’s bright morning conjunction

10 August 2025

Get ready for a clash of the titans when Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in our Solar System, come together for a dazzling event visible across the length and breadth of the UK in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Lyra’s stunning smoke ring – M57

10 June 2025
Caught in the current of the wonderful Whirlpool

25 April 2025

The Dark Tower

3 November 2024

This eerie, dark silhouette is a cometary globule designated GN 16.43.7.01. Despite their name, cometary globules have nothing to do with comets, beyond having a similar shape of a dusty head with a tail.
Cosmic sky of red and blue

20 July 2024
Triple T-Tauri

13 July 2024

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