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Giant storm on Uranus in the 2.2-micron IR band
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Amateur astronomers image extreme storms on Uranus

13 November 2014 Ade Ashford

Far from always being a featureless blue-green dot in backyard telescopes, both amateur and professional astronomers have recently imaged extreme weather features on Uranus.

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Active main-belt asteroid 62412 (2000 SY178) develops a tail

11 November 2014 Ade Ashford

Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of Carnegie’s Gemini Observatory present recent observations revealing that main-belt Hygeia-family asteroid 62412 (2000 SY178) has a tail.

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Cassini sounds the depths of Kraken Mare, Titan’s largest sea

10 November 2014 Ade Ashford

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provides scientists with further radar and spectoscopic data during its 21st August 2014 flyby of Saturn’s largest moon, revealing depths of Kraken Mare, Titan’s largest liquid methane sea, and further evidence of transient islands.

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Celestron StarSense AutoAlign receives update

10 November 2014 Ade Ashford

StarSense AutoAlign beta firmware 1.12.14310 brings the much anticipated All-Star Polar Align (ASPA) feature to Celestron German equatorial mounts.

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  • Nova outburst in Centaurus
    24 September 2025
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    12 September 2025
  • Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1e displays tentative evidence for an atmosphere
    8 September 2025
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    Venus and Jupiter’s bright morning conjunction
    10 August 2025
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