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Commercial lunar lander returns America to the Moon

22 February 2024 Astronomy Now

A lander built by the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines touched down near the Moon’s South Pole on Thursday. It was the first lunar landing by a US spacecraft in more than 50 years and the first commercially-operated vehicle to successfully reach the surface.

Celestron RASA 8 astrograph: fast imaging with the RASA 8

22 February 2024 Astronomy Now

Olly Penrice has spent over a year imaging with a Celestron Rowe–Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph (RASA) and finds that, with some fiddling required, it excels at capturing high-quality data of deep-sky objects.

A rare triple active galactic nucleus

14 February 2024 Astronomy Now

This cosmic collision is a coming together of two large spiral galaxies, but if you look carefully you might see two smaller galaxies that are also involved.

Reviewed: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTI

18 December 2023 Astronomy Now

Sky-Watcher’s range of star trackers, called Star Adventurer, have been popular. The original Star Adventurer was released in 2014, running off an external 5V supply or four AA batteries, motorised and guiding in RA only.

Webb space telescope turns its infrared eye on the Crab Nebula and its remnant pulsar

7 November 2023 Astronomy Now

Taking a fresh look at the Crab Nebula, the James Webb Space Telescope provides new insights into the titanic explosion that blew a star apart and left a spinning pulsar in its wake.

First colour images from Euclid space telescope get rave reviews

7 November 2023 Astronomy Now

The initial colour images from ESA’s Euclid space telescope demonstrate its ability to capture wide-angle views that will shed light on the nature of dark energy and dark matter.

Buyers’ guide: The best equatorial mounts

6 November 2023 Astronomy Now

Before looking at a sample of equatorial (EQ) mounts on the market, we should answer three questions: what are they, why are they important and what makes some of them so astonishingly expensive?

Antlia ALP-T 5nm dual-band filter

27 October 2023 Astronomy Now

Nik Szymanek tests a new dual-passband filter from Antlia that allows imagers to simultaneously capture narrowband data in hydrogen-alpha and oxygen-III light.

Hubble images a glittering, star-studded globular cluster

6 August 2023 Astronomy Now

A star-studded image of a globular cluster near the core of the Milky Way serves as a reminder that the Hubble Space Telescope continues to wow astronomers with its powerful, crystal-clear vision.

NASA picks up faint carrier signal from Voyager 2

2 August 2023 Astronomy Now

NASA picks up faint carrier signal from Voyager 2, indicating the spacecraft is still functioning after antenna misalignment.