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What does space smell like?

From rum to rotten eggs, Jonathan Powell turns his nose to heaven's scents

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

In the latest episode of The Sky at Night, Arik Kershenbaum considers whether it's inevitable that intelligent alien civilisations are out there

It's time that space had a female face

Equality for women will make a stronger space sector, says Gabriella Goddard

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

The Sky at Night TV show, past, present and future | June's episode of The Sky at Night looked at the booming UK spaceflight industry, but Andrew Lawrence warned of some of the consequences

Looking at home from afar

Studying our cosmic neighbourhood from 'outside' is an eye-opener

Building Magrathea

Worlds that orbit two white dwarfs could be relatively common

Star swallows planet whole

Bloated star gives a dusty belch as it engulfs one of its orbiting planets

Q&A A WITH A GALAXY RESEARCHER

Quasars are hungry monsters at the heart of galaxies, but the origins of these powerful objects have long been a mystery

Boosting detail in nebula photos - a case study

ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY PROCESSING | Expert processing tips to enhance your astrophotos | Combine RGB and narrowband data to give deep, rich images

Catch the Sun

ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY CAPTURE | Take the perfect astrophoto with our step-by-step guide | How to safely capture the drama now that solar activity is picking up

Make a Sun, Moon and Earth model

DIY ASTRONOMY | Practical astronomy projects for every level of expertise | A simple, hands-on project to teach their surface features and orbits to beginners and youngsters

Nancy Grace Roman

Ezzy Pearson celebrates a scientist whose legacy can be felt across all astronomy

Euclid Shedding light on the dark Universe PRO

A new European space telescope launching this month will tackle the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, reports Govert Schilling

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