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Planetary scientist Emily Lakdawalla

Radio Astronomy Podcast Emily Lakdawalla talks Mars exploration

The APPG for Dark Skies is seeking to protect the UK's view of the night sky by legislating in Parliament. Photo by Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images

Light pollution law: understanding the APPG for Dark Skies

The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/J. Cowart, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

The curious cloud above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano

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

Winchcombe meteorite The story of the Gloucestershire space rock

The Dunhuang Star Chart. Credit: British Library

Astronomy History A guide to China's astronomy

Storms on the Sun Lucie Green webinar BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Webinar Storms on the Sun, with Lucie Green

NASA WMAP mission podcast

Radio Astronomy Podcast 20 years of NASA's WMAP mission

Astronomer Heino Falcke pictured in front of an image of the black hole in galaxy M87.

Interview How we photographed the black hole in M87

Star Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus

Astronomy explained What is the brightest star?

How dwarf galaxy Tucana II is changing our view of the early Universe

Astronomer Heino Falcke pictured in front of an image of the black hole in galaxy M87.

Radio Astronomy Podcast How to photograph a black hole

Loops and blobs of cosmic dust in elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Where is all the cosmic dust?

The K2-290 system, with its tilted primary star, K2-290A, and two transiting planets. Credit: Sakkmesterke / iStock / Getty Images

The planets that orbit a backward-spinning star

Zeta Reticuli (left), the constellation Reticulum and the Large Magellanic Cloud, captured in 2013 by Pete Lawrence from Paranal, Chile. Credit: Pete Lawrence / BBC Sky at Night Magazine.

Astronomy explained The Zeta Reticuli double star

Andy Weird, author of Project Hail Mary. Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images

Radio Astronomy Podcast Interview with sci-fi author Andy Weir