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Black holes, dark matter, gravitational waves and exoplanets: find out how astronomy is unlocking the secrets of the Universe.

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

Do the high energy jets we see in the most active systems, suggest growing black holes? Credit: draco-zlat/getty images

BL Lacertae objects: attempting to understand a cosmic riddle

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

What happens when a planet orbits two stars at once? Credit: Rastan/istock/getty images

What happens when exoplanets orbit two stars at once?

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

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

M81 and M82, by Alvaro Ibanez Perez

7 galaxies to observe in the night sky

M16. Credit: Gerald Rhemann.

Star clusters: an astronomer’s guide

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

A Perseid meteor seen in the night sky above Corfe Castle, Dorset, United Kingdom, 12 August 2016. Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.

8 astronomy myths debunked

Spiral galaxy NGC 1300, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

The shape of galaxies: reconfiguring Hubble’s tuning fork

The Cigar Galaxy M82, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF).

How do galactic winds affect the evolution of galaxies?

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 Mars's moon Deimos captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on 21 February 2009. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Deimos: the strange orbit of Mars’s moon

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.