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The 'skull-like' imprint left behind by the Philae lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Philae’s second comet landing site found after 6 years

Clavius is a wonderfully rugged moon crater, ripe for observing with a telescope. Credit: Pete Lawrence

NASA detects water on sunlit surface of the Moon

A view of the northern sky captured by the TESS satellite. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA)

Eye On The Sky TESS satellite produces mosaic image of northern night sky

Coronal Mass Ejection as viewed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7, 2011. Image Credit: NASA/SDO

Solar Cycle 25 has begun, say solar astronomers

OSIRIS Rex approaches asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS REx touches down on asteroid Bennu

Free-floating Gaseous Globules. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sahai

Eye On The Sky Star-forming globules seen in cosmic bubble of hot ionised gas

Great Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)

Eye On The Sky Hubble views spiral galaxy as part of star formation survey

Left to right: Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Gez and Roger Penrose, winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics. Credit: Niklas Elmehed. © Nobel Media.

Trio win Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for work on black holes

A view of Jupiter and its moon Europa captured on 25 August 2020 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team.

Eye On The Sky Hubble captures a new view of Jupiter and moon Europa.

Supernova SN2018gv, spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in galaxy NGC 2525, 70 million lightyears away. Credit: credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess and the SH0ES team / Acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamani

Eye On The Sky Hubble views a supernova in a spiral galaxy

Brian May Cosmic Clouds 3-D (c.Denis Pellerin)

Brian May to launch 3D book in live YouTube event

Stargazing outside OM Dark Sky Park and Observatory, Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland Dark Sky Park and observatory to open

The misaligned planet-forming discs around triple star system GW Orionis. Credit: ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al., ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

Eye On The Sky Mis-aligned rings detected in disc around triple-star system

Scientists have found similarities in the shapes of channels created on Mars (right) and those formed by glacier meltwater in Earth’s Arctic region (left). Credit: Cal-Tech CTX mosaic and MAXAR/Esri

Mars valleys may have been formed by melting glaciers

A view of Venus captured by JAXA's Akatsuki orbiter. © PLANET-C Project Team

Venus Astronomers discover evidence of microbial life in planet's clouds