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Listen to the latest episode of the Radio Astronomy podcast in which we Stuart Clark discusses the history of ancient astronomy.

Radio Astronomy Podcast Stuart Clark discusses the history of astronomy

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

A full Moon that looks blue. Credit: PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/GettyImages

What’s in a blue Moon?

Composite infrared images of Cassini's moon Enceladus, revealing geologic activity. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/LPG/CNRS/University of Nantes/Space Science Institute

Eye On The Sky Cassini infrared Enceladus images reveal moon's geologic activity

An artist's impression of exoplanet HD 209458b. Credit: NASA/European Space Agency/Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS)

Twenty Worlds: interview with exoplanet astronomer Niall Deacon

A radio and infrared image of a section of our Milky Way galaxy. Radiation from newborn stars heats cosmic dust that glows in infrared (in violet), while ultraviolet light from these stars gives off radio waves in red. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF

How radio astronomy changed our view of the Universe

Prosiect Nos Wales is a new initiative looking to further the protection of dark skies in Wales. Credit: Eleni Debo/Folio

How Prosiect Nos is helping to protect Wales’s dark skies

Three images of NGC 2770 from early 2008 show the rare occurrence of two supernovae. Credit: ESO

Why do some galaxies have more supernovae than others?

Radio Astronomy podcast: Galaxies

Radio Astronomy Podcast Galaxies

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

Podcast: Emily Drabek Maunder discusses the discovery of phosphine on Venus

Radio Astronomy Podcast Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder discusses phosphine on Venus

An artist's illustration of a Martian dust storm. Credit: NASA

Winds on Mars: understanding the Red Planet’s atmosphere

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

An image of Enceladus captured by Cassini, showing plumes of vapour bursting through Enceladus’s icy crust. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

A guide to the oceans of the Solar System

Venus’s northern hemisphere, as seen by NASA’s Magellan probe. Credit: NASA/JPL

Venus The search for life on the hellish planet