January 4, 2010
January provides the perfect opportunity to observe stars, planets and galaxies. Sir Patrick Moore takes us on a tour of the wint...Read more
February 9, 2010
Mars is the brightest thing in the sky and is at its closest to Earth for the next four years. With NASA announcing that its Marti...Read more
March 8, 2010
Half a century ago, scientists were speculating about the possibility of planets outside our solar system. Since then over 400 suc...Read more
April 7, 2010
We can never see our nearest star at night, only by day. Looking at it directly will blind us - because our nearest star is the Su...Read more
May 4, 2010
Saturn is one of the largest planets and the beautiful system of rings surrounding it makes it the most distinctive in the solar s...Read more
June 6, 2010
The many star-forming areas of our galaxy are obscured by interstellar dust, but Herschel, a new space telescope, can see these ar...Read more
July 5, 2010
The Space Shuttle Atlantis has returned from its final flight to the International Space Station. With the shuttle fleet soon to b...Read more
August 2, 2010
The team look at the discovery of the brightest and most massive star to date.
September 7, 2010
In July 2009 a large object crashed into Jupiter, and in May 2010 one of the most prominent features of the planet, the southern e...Read more
October 5, 2010
Light echoes are reflections of light from distant objects in space. But what do they look like and how can they best be seen? Sir...Read more
November 8, 2010
Comets are strange and exotic objects, the remnants from dead stars and the birth pangs of our solar system. Only a handful of the...Read more
December 7, 2010
Ursa Major, the Great Bear, is a rich source of galaxies, double and variable stars and the Hubble Deep Field, through which we ar...Read more