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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

Globular cluster NGC 3201, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. What makes stars twinkle? Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: Sarajedini et al.

Astronomy explained Why do stars twinkle?

A view of Uranus captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. Credit: NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute

How was Uranus discovered?

Artist's impression of a Sun-like star near a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

Where is the nearest black hole to Earth?

Will we ever find life beyond Earth? Credit: Karen Teramura, UH LfA

Will we ever find life beyond Earth?

Listen to an episode of the Radio Astronomy podcast in which NASA's Jamie Bock discusses the SPHEREx mission.

Radio Astronomy Podcast How SPHEREx will track the history of the Universe

Two Herbig-Haro objects can be seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image, catalogued as HH46 and HH47. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini

Eye On The Sky Hubble spots Herbig Haro stellar shockwaves

An artist's impression showing OSIRIS-REx performing a gravity assist around Earth on its way to asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

Radio Astronomy Podcast OSIRIS-Rex and the asteroid belt

Artist's impression of an asteroid belt. Credit: Maciej Frolow / Getty Images

Asteroid Belt: what is it and how did it form?

Magnetic field lines on the Whirlpool Galaxy, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and SOFIA Observatory. Credit: NASA/the SOFIA science team/A. Borlaff/NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Eye On The Sky Whirlpool Galaxy's magnetic field lines mapped

Globular cluster NGC 6397, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Concentration of black holes found in ancient star cluster

NASA astronaut Mae Jemison onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in September 1992. Image Credit: NASA

6 women who changed astronomy and spaceflight

Kohnen Station Antarctica

What can Antarctic snow tell us about the Universe?

How to take part in Star Count 2021. Credit: Mitja Kobal / Getty Images

Stargazers wanted for UK lockdown light pollution survey