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NGC 1792: A beautiful tapestry of contrasting colour

16 June 2022 Keith Cooper

This dense, swirling spiral galaxy is NGC 1792, located 34.6 million light years away in the constellation of Columba, the Dove.

Moon ring shines bright over the VLT

15 June 2022 Keith Cooper

A stunning Moon halo shines in the sky above the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

The Double Double: Detach Lyra’s multiple-star gem

13 June 2022 Mark Armstrong

Epsilon (ε) Lyrae is a showpiece multiple star for double star enthusiasts, famously coined the ‘Double Double’.

Explore Scientific two-room pop-up observatory tent

10 June 2022 Ade Ashford

Ade Ashford goes camping to test a compact and easy-to-set-up telescope shelter designed for trips to dark, rural skies.

Micrometeoroid dings James Webb mirror segment

9 June 2022 Astronomy Now

A micrometeoroid hit one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments last month, causing “marginally detectable” degradation.

Clouds of stars

8 June 2022 Keith Cooper

The greatest survey yet of the Milky Way Galaxy’s two main satellites, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds has resolved an astonishing 360 million objects – stars, clusters and nebulae.

Zero-in on Messier 13, the great Hercules globular

7 June 2022 Mark Armstrong

Messier 13 (NGC 6205) in Hercules is another of those truly celebrated deep-sky objects like the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Andromeda galaxy.

The Sky Imaging Edition: Part 3

6 June 2022 Astronomy Now

Nik Szymanek wraps up his deep dive into the capabilities of the new imaging edition of Software Bisque’s The Sky by taking the program on several full-blown imaging runs.

Baader Planetarium flip mirror II Star Diagonal

3 June 2022 Steve Ringwood

This latest flip-mirror star diagonal from Baader Planetarium offers high-quality views for imagers who want to use a guiding eyepiece, as well as a revolutionary third port for off-axis autoguiding, writes Steve Ringwood.

Galactic light rays shine through the dust

1 June 2022 Keith Cooper

At the heart of IC 5063 is an active supermassive black hole that is busy guzzling gas.