Mercury in a transparent early-evening sky on 24 January 2021. Image: Martin Campbell. Mercury, the fast moving inner planet, passed through inferior conjunction between Earth and the Sun on 6
Mercury in a transparent early-evening sky on 24 January 2021. Image: Martin Campbell. Mercury, the fast moving inner planet, passed through inferior conjunction between Earth and the Sun on 6
Jupiter, by far the Solar System’s dominant planet, imaged on 29 November 2024. Image: Damian Peach. Jupiter reaches its long-awaited opposition on 7 December when it lies in Taurus with
Venus and a young crescent Moon close together on the early-evening of 26 April 2020. A young moon lies close to Venus on soon after sunset on 5 November, Bonfire
Image: ESO/VPHAS+ Team. This eerie, dark silhouette is a cometary globule designated GN 16.43.7.01. Despite their name, cometary globules have nothing to do with comets, beyond having a similar shape
A Hubble Space Telescope false-colour view (left) of a 100-billion-mile-wide disc of dust around the star Vega. The James Webb Space Telescope (right) resolves the glow of warm dust in
Magnificent NGC 253, the Silver Coin Galaxy in Sculptor. Image: Warren Keller/Telescope Live. Amateur astronomers just love the challenge of checking out those horizon-hugging southern constellations and seeking the deep-sky
The gruesome palette of these galaxies is owed to a mix of mid-infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope, and visible and ultraviolet light from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Messier 103 in Cassiopeia is an impressive open cluster that gives a good view through a small- to medium-aperture telescope. Image: David Wills. Messier 103 (NGC 581) is Cassiopeia’s second
IC 10 is a dwarf irregular galaxy that’s a member of our Local Group. Intense star formation here leads to its ‘starburst’ classification. Image: Leonardo Orazi. Galaxies are everywhere, including
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) imaged on 3 October from Tivoli Farm, Namibia, southern Africa. The comet, exhibiting a 10° long tail, was only a few degrees up in the pre-dawn