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Astronomy

October 2024

  • The comet photographed before dawn from Temisas, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain.

    Comet last seen in stone age to make closest approach to Earth

    C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–Atlas) was discovered last year and is thought to orbit the sun every 80,000 years

September 2024

  • Starwatch chart

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Pisces emerges in the eastern sky as the nights lengthen

  • Satellites in space

    European twin satellite mission bids to create total solar eclipse on demand

  • Silhouettes of people watching sunrise.

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Night and day reach same length after autumnal equinox

  • Maureen Beattie standing wirh her arms crossed in front of a panelled door.

    The week in theatre; The Lightest Element; The Real Ones – review

  • Earth will briefly have a second ‘mini moon’ this autumn

  • Glowing September supermoon lights up the sky – in pictures

  • Pair of huge plasma jets spotted blasting out of gigantic black hole

  • Supermoon with partial lunar eclipse charms stargazers across the world – video

  • September Supermoon: the best place and time to see tonight’s bigger and brighter full moon

  • The Lightest Element review – tribute to trailblazing astronomer expected to make the tea

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Partial lunar eclipse offers small-scale drama

  • Astronomy photographer of the year 2024 – winners and finalists

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Cygnus the swan will shine even in suburban areas

  • Jupiter’s moon Ganymede was struck by asteroid bigger than dinosaur-killing rock

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Mercury reaches its greatest western elongation

  • ‘She was right and they were wrong’: the female astronomers hidden by science’s male elite

  • ‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west

August 2024

  • George Pickett with a dilution refrigerator designed and built with his colleagues at Lancaster University.

    George Pickett obituary

  • Starwatch 26th August

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: August moon offers treat for early risers

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