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A buyer’s guide to telescopes: choosing your first scope

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

Latest articles

Stargazing for beginners

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

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A buyer’s guide to telescopes: getting the most from your equipment

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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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DayStar Quark Magnesium I b2 solar filter review

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ToupTek G3M-224-C colour camera

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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

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A buyer’s guide to telescopes: astronomy accessories

Blue illuminated tent with travelers in the mountain. Background of a pine tree silhouette and the starry summer night sky.

A beginner’s guide to meteor showers

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How to turn your iPhone screen red for astronomy

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Learn astronomy in 10 easy lessons

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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

Mariusz Szymaszek, Garðskagi lighthouse, Iceland, 2 February 2016. Equipment: Sony A7S camera, Samyang 14mm lens.

Astrophotography

Beautiful images of the aurora

Star trails at La Silla
Zdenek Bardon, La Silla Observatory, Chile, 14 March 2018
Equipment: Nikon D810A DSLR camera, Zeiss Milvus 2.8/18 lens.

Astrophotography

Hotshots: top readers’ images of 2018

Zdenek Bardon,
Sumava mountain, Czech Republic. Equipment: Nikon D810A, Takahashi FSQ106/530, tripod.

Astrophotography

In pictures: total lunar eclipse, 27 July 2018

The Rho Ophiuchi Clouds, by Artem Mironov (Russia)

Hakos Farm, Windhoek, Namibia, 6 August 2016

Equipment: Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera, Sky-Watcher 200P reflector, Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro SynScan mount.

Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017: winners announced

Podcasts

The Apollo 7 crew R. Walter Cunningham, Donn F. Eisele and Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. We look back at this incredible mission 50 years on, in our October 2018 issue.

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Ice on the Moon and Apollo 7

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Lunar eclipses, 2019 space missions and green stars

The annual bluedot festival is three days of music and science at Jodrell Bank Observatory in rural Cheshire.
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Podcast: Bluedot Festival 2018 special

'How to' guides

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How to clean binoculars

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How to build a simple solar finder

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How to observe variable stars

In the magazine

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March 2019

February 2019

Inside this month’s new-look issue:

November 2018

November 2018

October 2018

October 2018