November 2021 – Page 2 – Astronomy Now

Observe remote Uranus at this favourable opposition

4 November 2021 Mark Armstrong

Uranus, the remote seventh planet from the Sun and the third-largest planet overall, comes to opposition on the night of 4/5 November, when it can be easily found through a pair of humble 10 x 50 binoculars.

A mysterious ‘superbubble’ carved in the heart of a glowing emission nebula

3 November 2021 Astronomy Now

A 250-light-year-wide superbubble in an emission nebular hints at unseen processes at work to carve out a void in glowing clouds of hydrogen gas an dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Hubble Space Telescope in ‘safe mode’ – engineers troubleshooting

2 November 2021 Astronomy Now

Engineers are troubleshooting command and data timing issues aboard the Hubble Space Telescope that have temporarily knocked the observatory out of action.

Catch the ‘Rosetta’ comet’s return

1 November 2021 Mark Armstrong

Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, visited by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe, is well placed for observation now; indeed, it’s been under constant scrutiny by amateur astronomers since late spring, when it shone feebly at nineteenth-magnitude in the pre-dawn sky from the UK.