Science
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT
July marks a milestone for Chris Lintott - 25 years appearing on The Sky at Night. Here he reflects on cosmic discoveries and standout moments from his time on the show
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August 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
the Tracking stars
Ancient skywatchers of the Four Corners
7 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
How to take calibration frames
Stop noise, dust and vignette messing up your DSLR astro images
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
O&A WITH A FILAMENT FINDER
Researchers looking at the centre of our Galaxy have discovered a first: long, slim filaments made not of dust but gas, and forged by powerful shockwaves
2 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
How to photograph NLCs for science
Noctilucent clouds are fleeting and mysterious - if you catch them, your data can be useful
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Chandra Uncovering the high-energy Universe
The world's most powerful X-ray telescope has been changing our understanding of space for a quarter of a century. Jane Green celebrates Chandra's achievements through some of its most spectacular images
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July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Sky-Watcher Heliostar 76Ha telescope
Holding out for a first-rate solar scope at an affordable price? The wait may be over
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Who really invented the telescope?
No, it wasn't Galileo. Govert Schilling untangles the tale of astronomy's greatest creation, and recounts what happened next
7 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Diffraction spikes
Stars don't actually have spikes, but that's how we see them thanks to bending light
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Make a stunning skyscape
Combine the night sky and landscape to brilliant effect
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Signs point to Planet 9
We may have found the first direct evidence of a ninth major planet in the Solar System
2 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
JWST finds frozen water in a young star system
Long-awaited discovery finds crystalline water-ice in star's debris disc
1 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Pluto: 10 years on
The New Horizons fly-by of this ancient, icy world continues to surprise a decade later. So what have we learned? Ben Evans investigates
8 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Battle of the Big Bang
About 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe burst forth from an infinitely dense inferno, started to expand and cool, and is still expanding to this day. The Big Bang is “science's earliest memory”, as authors Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper point out in this new book, so it's natural to ask what happened before it. But you may have been told that this is a daft question, because if time began at the Big Bang, then there can be no ‘before’. Battle of the Big Bang is here to debunk this myth and guide the reader between public perception and what cosmologists believe today.
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July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT
In June, The Sky at Night celebrated 350 years of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. George Dransfield talks time and how the clock rules her own astronomy
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Universe could end sooner than we think
New model suggests Hawking radiation is speeding cosmic decay
2 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Starpoint Australis Octans portable observatory
A pitch-perfect solution if you love travelling to dark-sky sites for astronomy
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Alyn Wallace's legacy shines over the Elan Valley
A new memorial to one of Wales's most talented astrophotographers has a special place in the landscape
2 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Memories of Hale-Bopp
Three decades on, Stuart Atkinson vividly recalls the wonder of witnessing the last Great Comet
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Mystery of Jupiter's luminous aurorae solved
High-energy particles trigger ultra-bright dancing lights in Jupiter's atmosphere
1 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Soviet spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years
Decades after its aborted Venus mission, Kosmos 482 crashes into Indian Ocean
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July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Early 'Hot DOG' is crammed full of gas
Infrared reveals young galaxy has far more mass than expected
2 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Hide and seek! A massive star hides in the centre of nebula Sh2-46
The blue-white star, caught on camera by the VLT Survey Telescope, may have formed in the nearby Eagle Nebula
1 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
One of largest space structures to date discovered
The giant ball of hydrogen, named Eos, has been found on Earth's doorstep
1 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Q&A WITH A DWARF GALAXY HUNTER
The Euclid space telescope has only just begun its six-year-long mission to map the night sky, but it's already revealed a treasure trove of new galaxies
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
SKILLS FOR STARGAZERS
Get the best from your astro camera
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Space myths BUSTED
From frozen astronauts to rampaging black holes, Alastair Gunn debunks 10 things you thought you knew about space
8 min |
June 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
RVO Horizon 8-inch f/4 imaging Newtonian
Want to photograph large nebulae and galaxies? This big, fast scope is no slouch
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
ZWO Seestar S30 smart telescope
Sure to tempt beginners, the S50's tiny sibling is afforable, super-simple and great fun
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Out of this World and Into the Next
Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? These are fundamental and profound questions that encompass the whole of human existence.
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