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A view of the Sun captured by ESA's Solar Orbiter, 30 May 2020. Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL

Eye On The Sky ESA's Solar Orbiter first light images released

Northern Dragon's Eye Elena Pakhalyuk (Ukraine). Category: Aurora. Equipment Canon EOS 6D camera, 14 mm f/2.8 lens, ISO 1600, 30-second exposure.

Gallery Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2020 shortlist images revealed

Jason Durrant, near Beccles, Suffolk, UK, 11 July 2020. Equipment: Sony A7III, Tamron 28-70mm lens, ISO 3200, 5

Gallery Comet NEOWISE blazes across the night sky

Abell 2384, by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V.Parekh, et al. & ESA/XMM-Newton; Radio: NCRA/TIFR/GMRT; Optical: DSS

Eye On The Sky Abell 2384: a bridge between galaxy clusters

National Astronomy Week 2020

National Astronomy Week 2020 dates announced

Red nebulosity near Garnet's star

Getting the best out of old astronomy equipment

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BAME astronomers in front of a starry sky

Astronomy in the wake of Black Lives Matter

AB Aurigae. Credit: ESO/Boccaletti et al.

Eye On The Sky Gaseous twist may reveal young planet in orbit around a star

Galaxy cluster MACS J0416. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Montes (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

Galaxy cluster MACS J0416 reveals clues about early Universe

An artist's impression of Earth-like exoplanet Kepler-186f. Credit: NASA

Earth-like exoplanets may be more common than thought

Galaxy NGC 5861, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.

Eye On The Sky Hubble spies an intermediate spiral galaxy

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo by Julian Leek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

SpaceX Crew Dragon launches in historic first crewed flight

The glare of light pollution can be a menace for amateur astronomers. Credit: Steve Marsh

61% live under ‘severe light pollution’, says UK survey

Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 4100. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho

Eye On The Sky Hubble views a stretched spiral galaxy