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A Basic Guide to Telescope Mounts

Could comets threaten life on Earth?

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Is Planet Nine tilting our Solar System?

Latest articles

Stargazing for beginners

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

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Things new stargazers should know

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Understanding optical aberrations

Beautiful track star image during a night in Tuscany. Trajectories of aircraft and shooting stars in the sky. Long exposure for trails of stars.

Astrophotography

A beginner’s guide to astrophotography

Astronomy equipment reviews

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6 of the best: 10x50 binoculars: £100-£200

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Nikon D810A DSLR camera

Tele Vue DeLite eyepiece range

Tele Vue DeLite eyepiece range

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Space science

In this comparison image the photo at the top was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in 1995 and shows the spot at a diameter of just under 21 000km; the second down shows a 2009 WFC3 photo of the spot at a diameter of just under 18 000km; and the lowest shows the newest image from WFC3 taken in 2014 with the spot at its smallest yet, with diameter of just 16 000km.

How to measure Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

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Life on Mars

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Supermassive black hole imaged for first time

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Impacting Jupiter: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, 25 years on

Astronomy guides

While equatorial mounts will help you take crisp nightscape images, star trails can be used to add a unique effect to astrophotos. Chap Him Wong won the 'People and Space' category in the 2015 competition with this amazing shot. Credit: Chap Him Wong

How to create star trail astrophotos

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A guide to Chile’s best stargazing sites

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How to image the night sky

Starry night sky over the mountains of the North Caucasus. Binoculars for travelers to observe the stars of the Milky Way. Summer evening twilight time.

The value of binoculars

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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

While equatorial mounts will help you take crisp nightscape images, star trails can be used to add a unique effect to astrophotos. Chap Him Wong won the 'People and Space' category in the 2015 competition with this amazing shot. Credit: Chap Him Wong

How to create star trail astrophotos

Imaging deep-sky objects, like the globular cluster M13, captures the beauty of distant space

Astrophotography guides

Introducing deep-sky photography

$Rad Djeliov, Northamptonshire. Rad says: "We were lucky enough to get a few minutes' break in the clouds and it just happened to coincide with the moonrise. This photo is something I've tried to do over many nights of chasing the Moon, and I'm very happy I caught it with some foreground (a local communications tower). Equipment: Canon 100D DSLR camera, Celestron C80ED refractor$

14 November 2016 supermoon: in pictures

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How to take a photo of the International Space Station

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How to photograph the Moon with a digital camera

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

February 2019

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November 2018

November 2018

October 2018

October 2018