Stargazing in Utah the darkest state

Jamie Carter marvels at the night sky above Utah, a state packed with internationally-recognised dark-sky sites, iconic astrophoto locations and a long history of indigenous astronomy

Seeing THE SUN in white light

Pete Lawrence observations is your guide to making safe visual of our nearest star this summer

A year with JWST

To celebrate JWST’s first year of operation, Jenny Winder takes a look at some of the landmark scientific discoveries it has made over the last 12 months

Q&A WITH A GALAXY HUNTER

Researchers have been shocked to discover 'Universe breakers' in JWST images, massive galaxies that existed way before current theories predicted

QHYCCD QHY5111462C colour camera

Impressively premium sensor sophistication in a pocket-sized package

Fuss-free tools to process your DSLR astro images

Using freeware to stack, extract the background, calibrate colour and more

Record the motion of NLCs

Capture the movement, structure and colours of summer's night-shining clouds

Build your own EQ camera mount

This month's project is a manual equatorial mount that is enjoyable to use and helps to develop your knowledge of the night sky.

Solstices and equinoxes

Katrin Raynor explains how we get our seasons from Earth's orbit around the Sun

Fighting for the dark side

Battles over a neighbour's floodlight led Stephen Kirkman to propose a new law

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

On last month's episode of The Sky at Night, Mary McIntyre explained how basic home CCTV cameras can play a big part in meteor science

Sneezes and wheezes of the Butterfly

New imagery shows the nebula puffing 'like a fire-breathing dragon'

Super-Earths wreak havoc

Simulations show the common planet type would cause chaos in our Solar System

Dark skies champion Bob Mizon passes away

Dark-sky campaigner Bob Mizon, who spent many years fighting to protect the night from light pollution, passed away on 19 April.

Double quasar shines brightly

The pair are close to merging into a single giant black hole

JUICE begins its journey

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) from the European Space Agency is on its way, following a successful launch at 12:14 UTC on 14 April from French Guiana.

Black hole jet origin seen for first time

New observations hint at causes of powerful jets

One step forward for Artemis...

The Moon mission’s latest triumph has been followed by a potential new setback

The brightest radiation flash on record

Gamma-ray burst declared a 1-in-10,000-year event

Unistellar eVscope eQuinox 2

Powerful, light pollution-busting smart scope for painless one-click imaging

Who invented the southern constellations?

Ian Ridpath uncovers how it took 150 years of exploration to fill the skies of the Southern Hemisphere with 26 new constellations.

Noctilucent clouds on the rise

Night-shining clouds have fascinated skywatchers for almost 140 years. Rob Banino finds out what they tell us about our changing atmosphere

What happened BEFORE the Big Bang?

Govert Schilling answers your questions on cosmology’s most confusing concepts

The FIRST WOMEN of space

Ezzy Pearson reveals how Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride blazed the trail for womankind

Our DISAPPEARING dark skies

Shaoni Bhattacharya looks at what is - and isn't - being done to help ensure everyone can see the stars

The trip of my dreams

Scout Simon Shemetilo won a VIP visit to a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

In April's Sky at Night, chemist Mark Sephton revealed how we'll look for signs of Martian life in samples collected by Perseverance

Blowing bubbles in the early Universe

Do infant galaxies work together to clear the hydrogen around them?

DART was bang on target

The asteroid-deflecting DART mission worked with incredible accuracy

DEEP-SKY TOUR

Everybody knows the Plough, but can you find all six Messier objects in the surrounding field?