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What is the Milky Way?

Readers’ images: top galaxy astrophotos

This image combines many exposures of different durations taken to reveal aspects of the widely-viewed total solar eclipse of 21 August 2017, which was visible from the United States. In the centre the faint circle of the Moon can be seen, with its surface features dimly illuminated in light reflected from the Earth. Around the edge red prominences can be seen and further out the white glow of the corona is sculpted by the Sun's magnetic field.

The astronomers’ eclipse: looking ahead to 2 July 2019

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Stargazing for beginners

New to astronomy? Get started with our newcomers' guides.

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The importance of portable astronomy kit

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What’s in a mount?

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Things new stargazers should know

Astronomy equipment reviews

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Visionary 20x80 HD binoculars

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Nikon D810A DSLR camera review

£2699 Price correct at time of review

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Altair Lightwave 72ED-R refractor

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Space science

Uranus's rings imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997 in infrared and visible light
Image credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona), and NASA/ESA

40 years of Uranus’s rings

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A tale of two eclipses

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A guide to galaxies

Weather in the Solar System

Astronomy guides

Olli Reijonen sent in this image of a Perseid, top right of the picture, that he managed to capture while photographing noctilucent clouds and aurora at Lake Päijänne in Finland. Olli used an Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera and Panasonic Lumix G 200mm lens.
Credit: O. Reijonen

Summer astronomy: what to observe during the lighter months

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Astronomy star catalogues: which to use and when

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Telescope stats explained

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Get to grips with altaz mounts

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Astrophotography

Guides and galleries to help you get imaging the night sky

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Astrophotography

10 simple tips for budding astro imagers

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Astrophotography guides

How do you take photographs of the aurora?

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Astrophotography guides

A guide to astrophotography stacking

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Astrophotography

Shooting the stars

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How to photograph meteor showers

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Colour handling: how to produce full-colour planetary images

Astrophotography galleries

23rd November 2015. Saturn’s moon Tethys floating in the foreground of its parent planet. The moon is composed mainly of water ice, much like the rings of Saturn. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Cassini’s top 10 images of Saturn and its moons

Astronaut Bruce McCandless makes the first ever untethered spacewalk with the aid of his nitrogen jet propelled backpack, February 1984.

NASA Space Age photos up for auction

The US astronaut relaxing onboard the USS Noa after it picked him up following the Friendship 7's landing in the Atlantic Ocean, 1,200km southeast of Bermuda. (Credit: NASA)

Remembering astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth

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Steve Brown (UK)

Location: Stokesley, North Yorkshire, UK, 11 January 2016

Equipment: Canon EOS 600D DSLR camera, 250mm lens, Star Adventurer tracking mount.

Astrophotography

Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year: 2017 shortlist revealed

Gene Cernan takes the Lunar Roving Vehicle for a ride on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission. (NASA)

Remembering astronaut Gene Cernan, the ‘last man on the Moon’

Podcasts

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New Horizons and event horizons

The New Horizons probe has given us incredible and unprecedented views of Pluto
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Podcast: New Horizons and event horizons

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Lunar eclipses, 2019 space missions and green stars

'How to' guides

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Build a smartphone holder for your telescope

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How to build a wheeled telescope tripod

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How to make a small refractor telescope

In the magazine

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March 2019

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Inside this month’s new-look issue:

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