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

What are stars? Credit: Eric Lowenbach / Getty Images

Astronomy explained What are stars?

Federation Astronomical Societies 2021 Online Convention

Federation of Astronomical Societies Online Convention 2021

The Parker Solar Probe is one of many spacecraft studying the Sun. Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins APL, Steve Gribben

Solar missions: How scientists study the Sun

Galaxy NGC 4424, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

How do we measure distance in space?

The black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 as it appears in polarised light. Credit: EHT Collaboration

Eye On The Sky M87 black hole revealed in polarised light

Did aurora play a part in the sinking of the Titanic? Credit: Alex Green / Folio

Did aurora play a part in the sinking of the Titanic?

A simulation showing Earth’s night sky in 3.75 billion years as Andromeda collides with the Milky Way. Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger

Andromeda-Milky Way collision: what happens when the galaxies collide?

A supermoon rising behind a mountain. Credit: Mimi Ditchie Photography / Getty Images

What is a supermoon and when is the next one?

Create a model solar and lunar eclipse for a school science project. Credit: Mary McIntrye

How to make an eclipse model

Armchair aurora online event 13 March 2021

See the Northern Lights from home with Armchair Aurora

The Celestial Police were a group of 18th century astronomers who discovered asteroid Vesta.

Discovering asteroid Vesta: the story of the Celestial Police

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been discovered outside a house in Gloucestershire, UK. Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum

Meteorite fragments recovered on driveway in Gloucestershire

The Northern Lights seen over the village of Verkhnetulomsky in Russia. Photo by Lev Fedoseyev\TASS via Getty Images

Aurora: the science of the Northern Lights, and how to see them

Black Eye Galaxy. Image credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team. Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

Eye On The Sky The strange secrets of the Black Eye Galaxy

I. HEYWOOD (OXFORD/RHODES/SARAO), NARVIKK/ISTOCK/GETTY. Two giant radio galaxies found with the MeerKAT telescope, with their light shown in red

Two giant radio galaxies found are among brightest in the Universe