No place to call home

First up is the mag. +11.9 planetary nebula IC 351, located 2.3° west and 0.8° south of Menkib (Xi (ξ) Persei). Despite its small apparent size – just 8 x 6 arcminutes – it’s visible through a small s

1. The Hyades The V-shaped Hyades open star cluster is next to mag. +1.0 Aldebaran (Alpha (α) Tauri), the reddish eye of the Bull, a foreground star that’s not actually part of the cluster. At 153 lig

While our planet only has one easily visible Moon, several other tiny objects arguably deserve the title too

When we imagine planets, we usually picture them circling a fiery star like our Sun. But new evidence has now been found of a type of planetary system that instead forms around cold planets that float

2 Sunday Mag. +0.4 Saturn is 5.7° from this morning’s 82%-lit waxing gibbous Moon. Catch them together before they set at around 01:00 UT. Tuesday 4 Callisto’s shadow transits Jupiter’s disc from 07:0

What is 3I/ATLAS and what makes it so interesting? 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar object that was discovered passing through the Solar System by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS)