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Observations of the Stingray Nebula by the Hubble Space Telescope. Left shows the object as it appeared in 1996. Right shows the object in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara)

Eye On The Sky Stingray Nebula fading fast in Hubble images

Astronomy in literature. Credit: Olivia Waller/folio

Things in heaven and Earth: a look at astronomy in literature

Scottish scientist and astronomer Mary Somerville. Photo by National Galleries Of Scotland/Getty Images

Astronomers you should know Mary Somerville

A DECam image showing the bulge of the Milky Way: part of a survey of 250 million stars. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA. Acknowledgment: Image processing: W. Clarkson (UM-Dearborn), C. Johnson (STScI), and M. Rich (UCLA), Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin.

Milky Way bulge imaged in survey of 250 million stars

Venus, Jupiter, Orion and The Pleiades in twilight, photographed by Jarrod Bennett, Saint Gregoire, Provence, France.

What is twilight?

An artist's illustration of exoplanet WASP-12b. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon

9 of the weirdest exoplanets in the Universe

An artist’s impression shows how the Universe’s first, massive, blue stars are embedded in gaseous filaments. Credit: N.R.Fuller/National Science Foundation

How did the first stars affect the evolution of the Universe?

An artist's impression of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter releasing probes into Venus's atmosphere. Credit: NASA/NSSDCA

Did the Pioneer mission discover phosphine in the clouds of Venus?

Cone-shaped shadows emanating from the bright centre of galaxy IC 5063 could be cast by the dusty ring surrounding the supermassive black hole at its centre. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and W.P. Maksym (CfA)

Eye On The Sky Shadow cast by dust disc around supermassive black hole

The world-famous Arecibo Observatory 305m radio telescope is to be decommissioned following safety concerns. Credit: University of Central Florida

News Arecibo Telescope under threat following structural damage

Artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disc. Our Solar System may have looked like this in its infancy. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

What is stardust?

A stream of charged particles emanating from red giant star R Aquilae. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Decin et al.

Eye On The Sky Stellar winds from red giant star produce cosmic floral pattern

What is a black hole? Janna Levin appears on the Radio Astronomy podcast

Radio Astronomy Podcast What's a black hole?

Jupiter, Mars and Saturn imaged at ESO's La Silla Observatory in the Atacama desert. Credit: ESO

Eye On The Sky Jupiter, Mars, Saturn imaged at La Silla Observatory

Katie Mack hosts BBC Sky at Night Magazine's webinar The Whole History of the Universe

Online Lecture Katie Mack: The Whole History of the Universe