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12 August 2020

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[ 11 August 2020 ] Arecibo radio telescope damaged by cable break News
[ 10 August 2020 ] Bright deposits in Ceres’ Occator Crater hint at ongoing cryovolcanism News
[ 7 August 2020 ] Hubble tests techniques for finding biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres News
[ 4 August 2020 ] Radio astronomers measure star’s wobble, find Saturn-size exoplanet News
[ 3 August 2020 ] Sub-glacial melting, not flowing rivers, may explain martian channels News

Don’t miss the Perseid meteor shower

10 August 2020

Get ready for the annual Perseid meteor shower this week, one of the most eagerly anticipated events on the astronomical calendar.
Set your sights on Saturn

20 July 2020
Don’t miss Comet NEOWISE in the evening

17 July 2020

SharpStar D 150mm f/2.8 HNT: An imaging telescope with sharp vision

27 May 2020

Until comparatively recently, your best tool for capturing wide-angle vistas of extended deep-sky objects with a full-frame DSLR or CCD/CMOS camera was a fast prime lens from one of the big-name players in photography. Now you can attain these swift imaging speeds with hyperbolic Newtonians, such as the SharpStar 15028HNT.
TS-Optics Photoline 60mm, f/6 FPL53 apochromatic refractor

3 April 2020
Sky-Watcher’s Sun-seeker

28 July 2019

“Space Butterfly” in Vela offers remarkable view of twin-lobed planetary nebula

7 August 2020

ESO’s Very Large Telescope captures a colourful view of an unusual bipolar planetary nebula resembling a vast butterfly stretching up to four light years across in the southern constellation Vela.
As three probes head for Mars, Curiosity nears eighth anniversary on red planet

4 August 2020
A nursery for the stars

28 July 2020

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