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A computer model of the Kuiper Belt. Credit: NASA

What is the Kuiper Belt? A guide to the outer Solar System

Comet Hale-Bopp, photographed by Alan Hale, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, 1996. Credit: Alan Hale (used with permission)

Comet Hale-Bopp: the story of a visitor from the edge of the Solar System

Crab Nebula. Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/F.Summers, et al.; NASA/CXC/SAO/N.Wolk, et al., & NASA/Caltech/IPAC/R.Hurt

Eye On The Sky Chandra takes a closer look at the Crab Nebula

Holst the Planets. Credit: iStock, NASA

Gustav Holst’s The Planets: the making of a masterpiece

Marcus Chown The Magicians

Magicians of science: an interview with Marcus Chown

Astrology signs of the Zodiac. Credit: Adriano La Naia / EyeEm / Getty

Astrology: an astronomer’s view

The Sun, as seen by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA

Understanding our Sun: the science of the solar cycle

These two stars are orbiting each other so closely that they have become what’s known as a contact binary. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

What are the weirdest stars in the Universe?

Galaxies NGC 470 and NGC 474, as seen by the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO

Eye On The Sky Very Large Telescope captures two distinctly different galaxies

The 3-body-problem remains a sticking point for astronomers. Credit: iStock

Solving the three-body problem in astronomy

The Pleasance, Edinburgh will be hosting many of this year's Edinburgh Science Festival's space-theme talks.

Coronavirus Edinburgh Science Festival 2020 goes digital

Cloud City, as seen in the Lego Star Wars series. Copyright: Disney XD / Getty Images. Used with permission.

How realistic are Star Wars planets?

The Swan Nebula, as seen by NASA's SOFIA telescope. Credits: NASA/SOFIA/De Buizer/Radomski/Lim; NASA/JPL-Caltech; ESA/Herschel

Eye On The Sky Swan Nebula captured by NASA's flying telescope

Lines in the Sun’s spectrum show which wavelengths of light have been absorbed by its atmosphere. Credit: N.A.Sharp/NOAO/NSO/Kitt Peak FTS/AURA/NSF, Eads Astrium.

Splitting starlight: the science of spectroscopy

Þ Patrick on the set of an early The Sky at Night broadcast, his idea now a reality. Credit: BBC

Letters from Patrick Moore: how The Sky at Night TV programme was born