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Celebrating Hubble: Mystic Mountain

5 April 2015 Astronomy Now

Looking like a Tolkienesque painting by John Howe or Alan Lee, this pillar of dust in the Carina Nebula (called the Mystic Mountain) is being assaulted from without and within.

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Public invited to help name features on Pluto and its largest moon, Charon

21 March 2015 Astronomy Now

On July 14th, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will flyby Pluto, offering the first close-up look at that small, distant world. You can help decide what names will be used on subsequent maps of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon, as the SETI Institute announces the launch of its “Our Pluto” campaign.

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Distant supernova split four ways by gravitational lens

5 March 2015 Astronomy Now

An astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, has found a massive galaxy within the MACS J1149 galaxy cluster that is gravitationally bending and magnifying light to create four separate images of a distant supernova.

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Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images

28 February 2015 Astronomy Now

Any book dealing with the greatest discoveries of Hubble is likely to be subjective but most of the iconic images are covered here.

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Hubble sees pulverised planet in Beta Pictoris debris disc?

23 February 2015 Astronomy Now

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disc encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris, revealing what may be the pulverisation of a Mars-size body in a giant collision.

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New Horizons spots Pluto’s small moons

19 February 2015 Astronomy Now

Exactly 85 years after Clyde Tombaugh’s historic discovery of Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft set to encounter the icy dwarf planet this summer is providing its first views of the small moons orbiting Pluto.

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A Valentine’s rose made of galaxies

14 February 2015 Astronomy Now

A rose made of galaxies, pictured by the Hubble Space Telescope, makes the perfect Valentine’s gift for the astronomer in your life!

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Hubble captures rare triple-moon conjunction

9 February 2015 Astronomy Now

On 24th January 2015, three of Jupiter’s Galilean moons were in simultaneous transit across the face of their parent planet. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this rare event in amazing detail.

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Hubble’s high-definition panoramic view of the Andromeda Galaxy

13 January 2015 Astronomy Now

A large swathe of the Andromeda Galaxy, our galactic next-door neighbour, is mapped in unprecedented detail in the largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled.

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NASA’s unprecedented look at superstar Eta Carinae

8 January 2015 Astronomy Now

Eta Carinae is the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years of Earth. A long-term study led by astronomers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center used satellites, ground-based telescopes and theoretical modelling to produce the most comprehensive picture of Eta Carinae to date.

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    12 September 2025
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    8 September 2025
  • Ten-Year Lease Extension Confirmed at Herstmonceux Observatory
    18 August 2025
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    Venus and Jupiter’s bright morning conjunction
    10 August 2025
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