Autumn’s fading galaxies

In a remote mountain range in Chile, a newly unveiled observatory will soon begin mapping the sky. When its survey starts, the Vera C Rubin Observatory will spend every night for the next decade chart

Prabhu, Emirates Astronomical Observatory, Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 2022, April 2023 and October 2023 Prabhu says: “This was a challenging target. I gathered enough broadband and narrowband data to hi

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

The faint, rather indistinct constellation Camelopardalis is supposed to represent a giraffe. It sits between Polaris (Alpha (α) Ursae Minoris) and Capella (Alpha (α) Aurigae). Our first target is loc

Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the fine dust debris strewn around the orbit of a comet. This happens when Earth is in a similar position in its orbit every year, and meteor showers rep

A crack-of-dawn start is one way to avoid the crowds. But there’s another option that doesn’t need an alarm clock.