Iain Todd

Science journalist

Iain Todd is BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Staff Writer. He fell in love with the night sky when he caught his first glimpse of Orion, aged 10.

Recent articles by Iain Todd

The Golden Ring Shuchang Dong

Astrophotography

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 Winners announced

Kynance Cove under the Milky Way Louise Jones (UK). Category: The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer. Equipment Nikon D7100 camera, Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 10 mm f/3.5, ISO 3200, 5 x 25-second exposures.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 13 Watch the awards online tonight

Snow Moon and Ryanair 737-800 by Mark Pelleymounter, Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. Equipment: Canon 7D, Tamron 150-600mm.

Astrophotography

Gallery Planes in front of the Sun and Moon

LDN 673 - Dark Nebula by Bob Franke, Chino Valley, AZ USA. Equipment: Takahashi FSQ-106ED, SBIG STF-8300, Baader LRGB filters, Losmandy Gll mount

Gallery Dark nebulae

An illustration showing Jupiter and its four Galilean moons, from left to right Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto. Credit: NASA/JPL/DLR

Gallery Jupiter's Galilean moons

Harmony © Stefan Liebermann (Germany) Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, 22 June 2020. Equipment: Sony ILCE-7M3 camera, Fornax Mounts LighTrack II mount, 16 mm f/2.8 lens. Foreground: ISO 2500, 15 x 0.8-second exposures. Sky: ISO 2000, 5 x 120-second exposures

Astrophotography

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 13 See the shortlisted images

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is during a spacewalk on the International Space Station, 28 February 2021. Credit: NASA

Interview What happens to our genes in space?

China's Tianwen-1 rover has released its first images of Mars. Credit: CNSA

Mars exploration China rover returns first images of the Red Planet

Astronomer Heino Falcke pictured in front of an image of the black hole in galaxy M87.

Interview How we photographed the black hole in M87

The Long March 5B rocket, lifts off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, 29 April 2021. Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT via Getty Images

China rocket debris could hit Earth this weekend

Zeta Reticuli (left), the constellation Reticulum and the Large Magellanic Cloud, captured in 2013 by Pete Lawrence from Paranal, Chile. Credit: Pete Lawrence / BBC Sky at Night Magazine.

Astronomy explained The Zeta Reticuli double star

Andy Weird, author of Project Hail Mary. Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images

Radio Astronomy Podcast Interview with sci-fi author Andy Weir

Michael Collins' official Apollo 11 portrait. Credit: NASA

Former Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies aged 90

Chanda Prescod Weinstein

Radio Astronomy Podcast Disordered Cosmos, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Stephen Walker Yuri Gagarin lecture BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Webinar Yuri Gagarin - the untold story