Astronomy News
Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:03am
Enter our competition to win one of two signed copies of Mission Moon 3-D, a new book about the Space Race conceived by Brian May and published by the London Stereoscopic Company.
Entrants must be UK residents aged 18 or over.
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Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:55pm
The Large Hadron Collider experiments recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang. Scientists have found that the plasma created during that time acted like a fluid.
Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:00am
Have you got what it takes to live and work in space? Find out by attempting to solve some mind-boggling puzzles from a new book by UK astronaut Tim Peake and the European Space Agency.
Tue Oct 09, 2018 9:25am
BBC Sky at Night Magazine speaks to former NASA chief historian Roger D Launius about his new book The History of Space Exploration.
Tue Oct 09, 2018 9:04am
Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy's latest work Above and Beyond is a look at the history of NASA following the Apollo missions.
BBC Sky at Night Magazine had the opportunity to sit down and chat with the director, who is the niece of US President John F Kennedy, about the past, present and future of spaceflight.
Mon Oct 08, 2018 1:11pm
The Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) and Cardiff Astronomical Society (CAS) have been spreading the stargazing bug at a recent co-hosted event.
Katrin Raynor-Evans, librarian at Cardiff Astro, reports back on the day's activities.
Thu Oct 04, 2018 12:18pm
Astronomers believe they have discovered an exomoon larger than Neptune in orbit around a planet several times larger than Jupiter.
Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:58am
Two new radio telescopes are being built that will span two continents and give astronomers an unprecedented look at the past, present and future of the Universe. Decades in the making, the Square kilometre Array is due to be the next leap forward in our understanding of the cosmos.
BBC Sky at Night Magazine spoke to SKA Director General, Professor Philip Diamond to learn more about this exciting project.
Wed Oct 03, 2018 7:26am
The search for the ninth planet in our Solar System has revealed a distant dwarf planet orbiting far beyond Pluto.
Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:12pm
Keep your binoculars steady with a mount that faces down to look up.
Mon Oct 01, 2018 2:25pm
October 2018 sees the launch of Bepi Colombo, a European mission to study Mercury, the innermost world in our Solar System.
Govert Schilling reveals why we’re going, and how we’ll get there.
Mon Oct 01, 2018 1:51pm
We reveal the tricks you need to image the International Space Station and capture its intricate features.
Tue Sep 25, 2018 8:35am
In the latest episode of the Radio Astronomy podcast, the BBC Sky at Night Magazine team discuss new evidence of water ice on the lunar surface, look back at the Apollo 7 mission and speak to Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory.
Carousel image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Thu Sep 20, 2018 4:26pm
An unknown glitch in NASA's Curiosity rover is preventing the Martian explorer from transmitting data back to Earth.
Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:09pm
A new initiative will get students to hunt out observing targets so that the JWST can investigate how matter gets spread throughout the Universe.
Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:14am
A star trail image reveals the apparent motion of the stars in the night sky and is a great way to take your next step in night sky photography.
Jamie Carter reveals how.
Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:35am
Ryan Gosling plays astronaut Neil Armstrong in First Man, the story of the Apollo 11 Moon landing from La La Land director Damien Chazelle.
Wed Sep 05, 2018 12:14pm
NASA’s Cassini probe saw the storm rising up hundreds of kilometres into the stratosphere
Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:02am
In 2017, astro-adventurers Scott Lange and Nick Foster visited the historic James Lick Refractor in the mountains of California to image the night sky through its century-old optics.
Thu Aug 30, 2018 9:06am
Astronomers have managed to map the gas and dust distribution of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion lightyears away.
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